XLC holdings and overlap
Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLC) holds 23 positions in its SPDR file of 2026-10-15. Its three largest are Meta Platforms (META) at 23.42%, Alphabet Class A (GOOGL) at 12.29% and Alphabet Class C (GOOG) at 9.83%, and its ten largest make up 76.3% of the fund.
In its SPDR file of 2026-10-15, XLC is 99.6% communication services by sector, with 45.5% in mega-cap tech and 45.5% in the ten largest US companies by market value.
What does XLC hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-15?
No fund with a page here holds more META than XLC does, out of the 127 that hold it at all.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | META Meta Platforms | 23.42% | |
| 2 | GOOGL Alphabet Class A | 12.29% | |
| 3 | GOOG Alphabet Class C | 9.83% | |
| 4 | DIS Walt Disney | 4.92% | |
| 5 | TTWO Take-Two Interactive | 4.6% | |
| 6 | NFLX Netflix | 4.43% | |
| 7 | T AT&T | 4.33% | |
| 8 | APP AppLovin | 4.24% | |
| 9 | VZ Verizon | 4.14% | |
| 10 | TMUS T-Mobile US | 4.1% | |
| 11 | CMCSA Comcast | 4.1% | |
| 12 | LYV Live Nation Entertainment | 3.56% | |
| 13 | RDDT Reddit | 3.04% | |
| 14 | OMC Omnicom Group | 2.89% | |
| 15 | FOXA Fox Class A | 1.66% | |
| 16 | CHTR Charter Communications | 1.6% | |
| 17 | ECHO EchoStar | 1.57% | |
| 18 | NWSA News Class A | 1.42% | |
| 19 | TKO TKO Group | 1.38% | |
| 20 | FOX Fox Class B | 1.0% | |
| 21 | SKYD Skydance Corp | 0.52% | |
| 22 | NWS News Class B | 0.51% | |
| 23 | XASZ6 S+p Emini Com Ser Dec26 | -0.0% |
The most recent file State Street SPDR has published for XLC is dated 2026-10-15, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the State Street SPDR ETFs covered here. Every one of the 23 positions XLC holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 126 ETFs with a page here that hold META, and how their weights compare with the 23.42% XLC gives it.
Category: Communication Services, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-15, 100% of its stocks whose sector is known are communication services companies, each in the sector the site gives that company. How categories are set.
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On the close of Monday, October 12, 2026, $5.6 million went into XLC, 0.02% of its assets, as it created shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net inflow of $276 million, 4 of them measured.
From XLC's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is XLC split by sector?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Communication services | 99.6% |
From its SPDR file of 2026-10-15. How these are measured.
What did XLC hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
XLC's largest position in its SEC filings has been Meta Platforms (META) since 2019-09-30: 18.02% then and 19.90% in its report for 2026-06-30, across 28 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-30 | 25 | META 18.02% | 72.7% |
| 2019-12-31 | 24 | META 19.30% | 73.0% |
| 2020-12-31 | 24 | META 21.31% | 76.1% |
| 2021-12-31 | 26 | META 23.06% | 77.1% |
| 2022-12-31 | 24 | META 15.69% | 75.0% |
| 2023-12-31 | 21 | META 23.61% | 77.7% |
| 2024-12-31 | 21 | META 18.59% | 72.0% |
| 2025-12-31 | 23 | META 19.75% | 72.1% |
| 2026-06-30 | 23 | META 19.90% | 76.1% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 28 reports XLC filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-09-30 to 2026-06-30, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/xlc/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does XLC duplicate?
The ETF nearest to XLC is VOX: the two hold 74.9% of their weight in common, in the 20 companies both own, and 95.2% of XLC itself is also held there. Owning XLC alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means holding mostly the same companies twice. XLC is close to contained in VOX.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of XLC held there | Of that ETF in XLC | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOX | 74.9% | 95.2% | 80.1% | 20 | |
| IXP | 70.2% | 100.0% | 71.9% | 22 | |
| PNQI | 26.3% | 45.8% | 26.3% | 5 | |
| FDN | 23.7% | 50.2% | 23.7% | 4 | |
| IYZ | 18.3% | 19.9% | 27.1% | 6 | |
| IGPT | 18.2% | 38.9% | 18.3% | 3 | |
| IWY | 16.8% | 54.5% | 16.8% | 5 | |
| VOOG | 16.6% | 68.3% | 16.6% | 11 | |
| CGGR | 16.5% | 58.0% | 16.8% | 6 | |
| MGK | 16.4% | 54.5% | 16.5% | 5 | |
| IWF | 16.2% | 68.7% | 16.2% | 10 | |
| SPYG | 15.7% | 71.3% | 15.7% | 12 |
The holdings of VOX and VOOG are from their SEC Form N-PORT filings for the period ended 2026-05-31, filed 2026-07-29. FDN's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-21. CGGR's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-05-31, filed 2026-07-21. MGK's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-28. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check XLC against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to XLC?
RING shares 0% of weight with XLC and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.20 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with XLC, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RING | iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF | 0.0% | 0.20 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.35 | 0 |
| USRT | iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.36 | 0 |
| REET | iShares Global REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.40 | 0 |
| PICK | iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF | 0.0% | 0.47 | 0 |
| SOXX | iShares Semiconductor ETF | 0.0% | 0.48 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.52 | 0 |
| PFF | iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF | 0.0% | 0.55 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.08% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 1.24% |
| Total return, 1 year | -1.0% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 75.0% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 47.5% |
| Volatility, annualised | 16.0% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -16.9% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.91 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 76.3% |
| Largest single position | 23.4% |
| Assets under management | $22.5B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from XLC's SEC filing of 2026-01-28); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-15; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.
How it moves with the market
| Against | Correlation, 3 years | Covariance, annualised, in percent squared |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.81often in step | 184 |
| QQQ | 0.75often in step | 234 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | -3.6% |
| 2025 | 23.1% |
| 2024 | 34.7% |
| 2023 | 52.8% |
| 2022 | -37.6% |
One year
Where to go next
- IXP, iShares Global Comm Services ETF
- VOX, Vanguard Communication Services ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what XLC carries once you look through it
- Compare XLC against any other ETF in the builder
Holdings from the most recent file State Street SPDR has published, dated 2026-10-15. Prices through 2026-10-16. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.
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