SPDR fund holding the S&P 500's materials sector — chemicals, industrial gases, coatings, metals and mining, packaging and construction materials. Sensitive to commodity prices and industrial demand.

Type

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

Tracks

S&P 500 Materials sector · US

Issuer

State Street

This fund is not the sector itself but a basket of the S&P 500 companies in that sector. Companies are weighted by market value with a cap on any single name, so the weights differ slightly from the sector's true shares.