Investment Objective
The investment seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in The Utilities Select Sector Index.
In seeking to track the performance of the index, the fund employs a replication strategy. It generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index. The index includes companies from the following industries: electric utilities; multi-utilities; independent power producers & energy traders; and gas utilities. The fund is non-diversified.
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Performance
| 1 month | -2.85% | | 3 years | +16.00% |
| 3 months | +7.20% | | 5 years | +3.11% |
| 1 year | +15.15% | | Since inception | +5.89% |
Quote Details
| Previous close | $39.52 |
| Open day’s range | 38.67 – 39.41 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 39.54 (05/22/2013) |
| Daily volume | 24,046,354 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 8,622,909 |
Data as of 4:00pm ET, 05/23/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Utilities ETFs
| | XLU | Category |
|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +3.11% | +3.03% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.18% | 0.48% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.39 | 0.29 |
| Net assets | $6.5B | $826.9M |
| Average market cap | $20.6B | $16.8B |
| Average P/E | 20.0 | 16.7 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.42% |
Competitors
| JXI iShares S&P Global Utilities Index Fund |
| PSCU PowerShares S&P SmallCap Utilities Portf... |
| DBU WisdomTree Global ex-US Utilities Fund |
Holdings
Top 5 Sectors
Portfolio weighting
Top 10 Holdings
Portfolio weighting
| DUK Duke Energy Corporation | 9.43% |
| SO Southern Co | 8.08% |
| D Dominion Resources Inc | 6.86% |
| NEE NextEra Energy Inc | 6.71% |
| EXC Exelon Corp | 6.19% |
| AEP American Electric Power Co Inc | 4.84% |
| PCG PG&E Corp | 4.12% |
| PPL PPL Corp | 3.77% |
| FE FirstEnergy Corp | 3.76% |
| SRE Sempra Energy | 3.63% |
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