XLV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF | ARCA:XLV)

The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund before expenses seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the Health Care Select Sector Index (ticker: IXV).

State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLV.

As of December 11, 2025, XLV stock price climbed to $153.58 with 14,054,053 million shares trading.

XLV has a beta of 0.48, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLV has a correlation of 0.25 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLV has a market cap of $40.22 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLV traded as high as $159.64 and as low as $122.59.

XLV has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +8.3% while the SPY ETF gained +15.5%. However, in the short term, XLV had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +12.3% vs +5.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, XLV shares have been beat by the market, returning -3.1% compared to an SPY return of +1.4%.

XLV support price is $150.58 and resistance is $153.70 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that XLV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.