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SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on XSD

What this diary said about SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

Charts from the desk on XSD

The charts this diary drew or picked on SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF, as published — each dated and linked to the piece that explains it.

Signals for this name

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

Closelooknet ETF read

Our dispersion engine · constituent internals

confirming up · Broad advance - breadth is rising with price. — last 21 sessions: price +10.2%, advance/decline +3.09 per name

WindowFundMedian holdingBeat / lag the fundUp / downDispersion
Day +2.7% +2.7% 22 / 21 40 / 3 2.5pp
Week +6.8% +6.5% 20 / 23 37 / 6 6.7pp
Month +10.2% +6.3% 13 / 30 34 / 9 14.3pp
Year to date +68.2% +46.6% 14 / 27 37 / 4 71.7pp

Drove the month MXL +49.0% · INTC +39.4% · AMD +31.1% · ALAB +25.6% · SMTC +29.5%

Dragged the month FSLR −13.7% · CRDO −6.8% · INDI −22.6% · OLED −10.9% · NVTS −3.7%

Computed by the Closelooknet dispersion engine from the full constituent roster (43 names, 100% of weight) · as of 2026-09-25 · full dispersion read → · methodology · descriptive, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 43 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “Chips up again, software down again — Friday's split is turning into a trend” (2026-09-08)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where XSD appears in the diary — 43 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

101 and glossary

  • Where a Fab Dollar Goes101Closelooknet View The complex at the decision zone, July 16, 2026 — SMH, SMHX, XSD and TSMC each sitting on the line that grades the correction.

Dailies

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
How it trades on rate days beta 0.52 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

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

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.52 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF moved 0.52% on average · correlation 0.10 · higher than 54% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.88 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.83% 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 −0.14% 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.

Who it is priced against Semiconductor funds · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Semiconductor funds

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

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

Company snapshot — SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF

XSD in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
XSD tracks the S&P Semiconductor Select Industry Index, using a sampling method rather than holding every name in it. That index draws its list from the semiconductor slice of the broader S&P total-market index, and weights holdings roughly equally rather than by size. The fund gives exposure across chip designers, equipment makers and fabrication firms as a group, instead of concentrating in the largest names.
Where it sits in the stack
XSD carries no seat in Rubin, Closelooknet's AI build-out index, because it is a fund rather than a single operating company. It sits in our semiconductor sector sleeve, offering broad, equal-weighted exposure across design, equipment and fabrication rather than to any one layer of the build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group here is other semiconductor funds — iShares Semiconductor ETF and VanEck Semiconductor ETF — the natural comparison since all three track the same sector by different construction rules. The diary also sets it against Invesco QQQ Trust when the question is broader tech exposure rather than semis alone.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
XSD holds no Closelooknet index seat and carries no Closelooknet score, since it is a fund rather than a company we score. The diary returns to it often in weekly signals and chart picks, using it as the equal-weight read against cap-weighted semiconductor funds when the sector moves.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether XSD's equal-weight construction keeps drifting from cap-weighted peers, since a widening gap there signals whether smaller semiconductor names are keeping pace with the sector's largest movers.

SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. 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.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months · last 0.26 USD on 2025-06-23

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months No cash distribution in the last twelve months earlier distributions show in the price series, see the years below
  • Last distribution 0.26 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2025-06-23
  • By calendar year 2024: 0.17 USD (partial) · 2025: 0.46 USD first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-09-23

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.

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

Quick answers

What is SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD)?

SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading as XSD 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 XSD?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF 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 XSD trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +7.2% vs the 50-day and +20% vs the 200-day average, 17.8% below the 52-week high and +92.8% 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 XSD?

Broad advance - breadth is rising with price. (confirming up, last 21 sessions). Over 21 sessions the fund moved +10.2% while the median holding moved +6.3%; 13 of 43 holdings beat the fund and 34 rose. Against the S&P 500 fund it is +9.5pp over the same window. The top ten holdings carry 39.1% of the weight (effective N 35.0). 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.

How does SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF had a beta of 0.52 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 54% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.83% 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 SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF?

SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF appears in 43 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Midday 10: Chips up again, software down again — Friday's split is turning into a trend (2026-09-08); Chart Pick: Two and a half months of lower highs, then a second low that held above the first — and on Friday the oscillator turned. (2026-09-04); Midday 10: Chips jump 3% while software falls 2% — the hot jobs report has split the tech trade in two (2026-09-04). What Closelooknet said most recently: On Friday it was the strongest share in the Dow; today the gains sit in Intel, AMD, Arm, the equipment makers and the optical names, and the equal-weight chip fund XSD is up 2.5% against 1.9% for the cap-weighted SMH. (Midday 10, 2026-09-08). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF do?

XSD tracks the S&P Semiconductor Select Industry Index, using a sampling method rather than holding every name in it. That index draws its list from the semiconductor slice of the broader S&P total-market index, and weights holdings roughly equally rather than by size. The fund gives exposure across chip designers, equipment makers and fabrication firms as a group, instead of concentrating in the largest names. Closelooknet's peer group here is other semiconductor funds — iShares Semiconductor ETF and VanEck Semiconductor ETF — the natural comparison since all three track the same sector by different construction rules. The diary also sets it against Invesco QQQ Trust when the question is broader tech exposure rather than semis alone.

Where does SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF sit in the AI build-out?

XSD carries no seat in Rubin, Closelooknet's AI build-out index, because it is a fund rather than a single operating company. It sits in our semiconductor sector sleeve, offering broad, equal-weighted exposure across design, equipment and fabrication rather than to any one layer of the build-out. XSD holds no Closelooknet index seat and carries no Closelooknet score, since it is a fund rather than a company we score. The diary returns to it often in weekly signals and chart picks, using it as the equal-weight read against cap-weighted semiconductor funds when the sector moves.

Does SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in SPDR® S&P Semiconductor ETF’s price series over the last twelve months. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for XSD, 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.