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Are you looking to buy or sell SPY? Or perhaps you're looking for SPY fact sheet, and learn about its alternatives? If so, you came to the right place.
In this SPY ETF review, we'll address key questions our readers have been asking us about this fund, above and beyond what you can find in its prospectus, and on Morningstar or Yahoo Finance.
Here is what you'll be able to find in this review:
- Fact Sheet: SPY performance, returns, expense ratio, holdings and dividend yield;
- Analysis: SPY buy or sell; the pros and cons of investing in SPY ETF;
- Alternatives: other ETFs and mutual funds you should consider as alternatives to SPY.
And here is the list of questions we’ll answer:
- Describe SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).
- What is SPY underlying index?
- What are SPY holdings?
- What is SPY performance? What are SPY historical returns?
- How many up and down years did SPY have historically?
- What is SPY dividend yield?
- What is SPY expense ratio?
- What is SPY Finny Score? SPY buy or sell?
- What are the pros of investing in SPY? What are SPY buy reasons?
- What are the cons of investing in SPY? What are SPY sell reasons?
- Compare and contrast: SPY vs VOO.
- Compare and contrast: SPY vs QQQ.
So let’s start. Scroll down to the question that interests you the most.
Fact Sheet
1. Describe SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is an exchange traded fund launched and managed by State Street Global Advisors, Inc. The fund invests in public equity markets of the United States. It invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund invests in growth and value stocks of large-cap companies. It seeks to track the performance of the S&P 500 Index, by using full replication technique. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust was formed on January 22, 1993 and is domiciled in the United States.
3. What are SPY top holdings?
SPY has 506 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings .
The top 10 holdings represent 27.37% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:
4. What is SPY performance? What are SPY historical returns?
SPY has generated the following returns:
- 1-month return is 5.47%;
- 3-month return is -6.86%;
- 1-year return is -7.99%;
- 3-year return is 11.67%;
- 5-year return is 12.47%;
- 10-year return is 13.36%;
- 15-year return is 8.10%.
5. How many up and down years did SPY have historically?
In the last 10 years, SPY had 9 up years and 1 down year.
7. What is SPY expense ratio?
SPY expense ratio is 0.09%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.
Analysis
8. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?
Finny Score is 100. Our quantitative analysis shows 6 reasons to buy and 0 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 100.
9. What are the pros of investing in SPY? What are SPY buy reasons?
The following are SPY strengths from our perspective:
- SPY net assets are $358.23 billion. This fund is a popular choice with retail and institutional investors.
- SPY 3-year return is 11.67%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (S&P 500 TR USD), 10.12%.
- SPY 5-year return is 12.47%, which is higher than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (S&P 500 TR USD), 10.51%.
- SPY 10-year return is 13.36%, which is higher than the 10-year return of the benchmark index (S&P 500 TR USD), 12.76%.
- SPY 15-year return is 8.1%, which is in line with the 15-year return of the benchmark index (S&P 500 TR USD), 8.17%.
- SPY expense ratio is 0.09%, which is considered low. Nice job picking a low-cost fund.
Alternatives
11. Compare and contrast: SPY vs VOO.
SPY has a lower 5-year return than VOO (12.47% vs 12.52%).
SPY has a higher expense ratio than VOO (0.09% vs 0.04%).
VOO profile: Vanguard Index Funds - Vanguard S&P 500 ETF is an exchange traded fund launched and managed by The Vanguard Group, Inc. The fund invests in public equity markets of the United States. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund invests in growth and value stocks of large-cap companies. It seeks to track the performance of the S&P 500 Index, by using full replication technique. Vanguard Index Funds - Vanguard S&P 500 ETF was formed on August 31, 1976 and is domiciled in the United States.
For further information, check out SPY vs VOO comparison details.
12. Compare and contrast: SPY vs QQQ.
SPY has a lower 5-year return than QQQ (12.47% vs 18.6%).
SPY has a lower expense ratio than QQQ (0.09% vs 0.2%).
QQQ profile: Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 is an exchange traded fund launched by Invesco Ltd. The fund is managed by Invesco Capital Management LLC. The fund invests in public equity markets of global region. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across energy, real estate, materials, industrials, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, health care, information technology, communication services, utilities sectors. It invests in growth and value stocks of large-cap companies. It seeks to track the performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index, by using full replication technique. Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 was formed on March 10, 1999 and is domiciled in the United States.
For further information, check out SPY vs QQQ comparison details.