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Seeking Alpha News (Wed, 3-Dec 8:49 AM ET)
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 5, 2025, XLV stock price declined to $153.26 with 8,503,666 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 0.26 to the broad based SPY ETF.
XLV has a market cap of $40.12 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 +7.3% while the SPY ETF gained +14.2%. However, in the short term, XLV had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +11.6% vs +6.2% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, XLV shares have been beat by the market, returning -0.9% compared to an SPY return of +4.0%.
XLV support price is $152.35 and resistance is $155.46 (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.
