Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE)
Sector — Energy · Benchmark: Index Benchmark · Domiciled in US
VMCI-Composite holdings score
ValueMarkers builds the VMCI-Composite by taking the underlying VMCI score for each of the ETF's top-10 holdings and weighting it by the holding's share of the fund. The number summarizes the fundamentals of the largest positions on the five-pillar framework — Value, Quality, Integrity, Growth, Risk.
Energy Select Sector SPDR — analysis
XLE's headline numbers: $81.4B AUM, 15 bps expense ratio, 2011 inception. Category: Sector — Energy. Benchmark: Index Benchmark. Energy Select Sector SPDR is the issuer-titled fund managed against that index since launch.
XLE VMCI-Composite: 67/100. The metric weighs the underlying companies' VMCI by their fund weight (top 10), so it captures whether the index methodology is selecting fundamentally cheaper, higher-quality, or lower-risk names. Read: above-average composite quality.
Trailing total return on XLE: 6.2% 5y CAGR. The Index Benchmark index returned 6.0% per year over the same window, leaving the fund above index by 0.2 pp annualized.
Income line on XLE: 4.70% trailing yield, 1.2% 5-year distribution CAGR. The starting yield combined with the growth rate is the standard back-of-envelope for total-income compounding inside the fund.
Holdings detail for XLE: 29% in top 10 (AAPL 3.46% the largest), with Technology at 30% of the allocation. The remaining sector mix spreads across 11 categories.
For a sector — energy allocation, the comparable trio to XLE is SPY, VOO, VTI. The screener and ETF browse pages on ValueMarkers let you sort all four side-by-side on AUM, cost, return, and yield.
Top 25 holdings
| # | Ticker | Weight | VMCI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | 3.46% | 87 |
| 2 | MSFT | 3.29% | 65 |
| 3 | NVDA | 3.29% | 84 |
| 4 | AMZN | 3.21% | 41 |
| 5 | GOOGL | 2.96% | 77 |
| 6 | META | 2.91% | 78 |
| 7 | BRK-B | 2.70% | 49 |
| 8 | TSLA | 2.66% | 57 |
| 9 | V | 2.58% | 79 |
| 10 | JPM | 2.32% | 48 |
| 11 | UNH | 2.28% | 54 |
| 12 | XOM | 2.20% | 41 |
| 13 | JNJ | 2.11% | 83 |
| 14 | PG | 1.98% | 52 |
| 15 | MA | 1.73% | 75 |
| 16 | HD | 1.69% | 83 |
| 17 | MRK | 1.60% | 67 |
| 18 | AVGO | 1.48% | 40 |
| 19 | PEP | 1.22% | 76 |
| 20 | COST | 1.01% | 68 |
| 21 | KO | 0.84% | 67 |
| 22 | WMT | 0.72% | 55 |
| 23 | BAC | 0.59% | 85 |
| 24 | CVX | 0.59% | 78 |
| 25 | ADBE | 0.55% | 47 |
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