XLV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Health Care Select Sector SPDR | 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).

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

As of December 16, 2024, XLV stock price declined to $139.31 with 9,199,672 million shares trading.

XLV has a beta of 0.51, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLV has a correlation of 0.27 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLV has a market cap of $37.15 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLV traded as high as $159.64 and as low as $118.75.

XLV has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +4.1% while the SPY ETF gained +30.5%. XLV has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -10.4% and -5.5%, respectively, while the SPY returned +8.3% and +0.7%, respectively.

XLV support price is $139.95 and resistance is $142.03 (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.