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Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund (XLK) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on XLK

What this diary said about Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
Global ETFs 150.17 shares · average entry $185.15 — +6.0%

Model books as of 25 Sept 2026; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for XLK, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Buying from Europe — UCITS versions of XLK

EU / EEA investors · UCITS funds

Investors in the EU and the EEA usually cannot buy Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund itself: US-listed funds publish no key information document, which EU rules require. These European-domiciled funds follow the Technology Select Sector index family instead.

FundIndexDividendsDomicileXetra (EUR)Londonvs XLK, since
SPDR S&P U.S. Technology Select Sector UCITS ETFIE00BWBXM948 Same index family — Ireland ZPDT SXLK · USD −1.01 pp (11 y)

Physically replicating Irish-domiciled funds pay 15% withholding tax on US dividends under the US–Ireland tax treaty; funds domiciled in Luxembourg usually pay 30% — a structural difference that shows up in the tracking difference of funds holding US shares. "Same index family" means the European fund may cap its largest holdings harder than the US fund, as EU fund rules require, so the two can diverge when one heavyweight runs. “vs XLK, since” = the UCITS fund’s dollar line in London against XLK, total return, percentage points a year since the common start — positive means the European version returned more. Listings verified against the vendor's symbol list by ticker and ISIN. All UCITS versions · descriptive, not advice.

Closelooknet ETF read

Our dispersion engine · constituent internals

confirming up · Broad advance - breadth is rising with price. — last 21 sessions: price +7.3%, advance/decline +0.44 per name

WindowFundMedian holdingBeat / lag the fundUp / downDispersion
Day +0.8% +0.5% 33 / 39 47 / 25 2.3pp
Week +3.6% +2.2% 30 / 42 48 / 24 7.0pp
Month +7.3% +2.7% 21 / 51 46 / 26 12.4pp
Year to date +36.7% +28.1% 35 / 37 50 / 22 106.3pp

Drove the month AMD +31.1% · INTC +39.4% · MU +15.3% · AAPL +8.8% · NVDA +7.3%

Dragged the month ORCL −7.9% · CSCO −5.0% · INTU −20.3% · ADBE −13.9% · ADSK −17.8%

Computed by the Closelooknet dispersion engine from the full constituent roster (72 names, 100% of weight) · as of 2026-09-25 · full dispersion read → · methodology · descriptive, not advice.

Who it is priced against Nasdaq 100 funds and near relatives · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Nasdaq 100 funds and near relatives

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against XLK on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.43%, quarterly · last 0.22 USD on 2026-09-21

Dividends and capital return

What XLK pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.84 USD per share · a 0.43% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +10.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.76 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.22 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-21
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.21 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.76 USD · 2025: 0.78 USD · 2026: 0.62 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-18

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.47 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How XLK has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.47 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund moved 0.47% on average · correlation 0.17 · higher than 49% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.72 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.82% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.32% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sector × region Technology in US: +3.6% week · +7.5% month · +8.5% quarter · +40.9% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-26
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25

About Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund

Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund (XLK) is an exchange-traded fund that trades on US exchanges. Closelooknet tracks it as a benchmark: the dailies and the sector dispersion board quote it as a market reference, and the holdings card above matches its largest positions against the names with a Closelooknet page. It is a constituent of Closelooknet benchmark ETF set.

closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund (XLK)?

Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an exchange-traded fund trading as XLK on the US exchange (US) and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelooknet tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

How does Closelooknet use XLK?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelooknet covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does XLK trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +6.4% vs the 50-day and +20.1% vs the 200-day average, 1.1% below the 52-week high and +55.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does the Closelooknet dispersion engine say about XLK?

Broad advance - breadth is rising with price. (confirming up, last 21 sessions). Over 21 sessions the fund moved +7.3% while the median holding moved +2.7%; 21 of 72 holdings beat the fund and 46 rose. Against the S&P 500 fund it is +6.7pp over the same window. The top ten holdings carry 62.0% of the weight (effective N 18.4). As of 2026-09-25, computed from the full constituent roster — the full dispersion read carries the series; a descriptive reading from Closelooknet's research diary, not advice.

Does Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund pay a dividend?

Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund has paid 0.84 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.43% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.22 USD on 2026-09-21. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund had a beta of 0.47 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 49% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.82% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund?

Technology Select Sector SPDR® Fund appears in 30 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: Cloudflare — The Put Comes Back 30 Dollars Lower and Three Months Longer (2026-09-26); Midday 10: Chips and Crypto — Arm +14%, Intel +13% and bitcoin at 85,700, with bonds bid and gold sold (2026-09-21); Midday 10: Fed day — relief before the decision: 10-year 4.96%, Brent under $107.63, chips reclaim $505, Nasdaq-100 above $708.69 (2026-09-16). What Closelooknet said most recently: Global ETFs added 1.04 shares of its non-US fund VEU on Tuesday, now 452.30, 0.17 of the tech fund XLK on Wednesday, now 150.17, and on Friday 0.24 of the momentum fund SPMO and 0.10 of the Nasdaq 100 fund QQQM; that is the book's tenth… (Daily Pulse, 2026-09-26). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for XLK, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelooknet names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 30 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “Cloudflare — The Put Comes Back 30 Dollars Lower and Three Months Longer” (2026-09-26)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where XLK appears in the diary — 30 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

Dailies