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XLB

XLB

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

ETFsPCXUSD-1.2% from ATH
Current Price

$52.72

Drawdown from ATH

-1.2%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

D

Weak

Graded against XLB's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: XLB's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days+2.31%
May 5Jun 16
About XLB

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

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 securities of companies from the following industries: chemicals; metals and mining; paper and forest products; containers and packaging; and construction materials. The fund is non-diversified.

The reading

How Dipsern reads XLB right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is XLB doing right now?

In plain terms: XLB is 1.2% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

Right now XLB — Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund — is at or near all-time highs, down 1.2% from its record high. Last price: $52.72. When an asset is this close to highs, drawdown signals are mostly noise — the more useful question is whether the next 5-10% pullback will be bought aggressively.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

Across all available history, XLB has spent enough trading days in the 5%-to-0% drawdown band to build a large sample (2396 observations). Dipsern segments these by drawdown depth and computes the rolling median forward 90-day return — that median is the primary signal you see in the full app, and it's substantially more robust than mean-based forecasts because it ignores fat-tail outliers in both directions.

Interpretation

What this means for XLB

ETFs aggregate constituent behavior, so their drawdowns tend to be shallower but more persistent than single stocks. The median forward return at a given drawdown level for an ETF is usually a more stable signal than for an individual equity. Use this snapshot to set expectations: this is where the asset is, not where it's likely to go. Drawdown-based signals only become high-conviction below shallow-pullback territory.

Comparable signals

Other ETFs at similar drawdown levels

Five tickers closest to XLB's distance from all-time high. Same category, one tap away.

Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF

-1.2% from ATH

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-1.3% from ATH

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

-1.2% from ATH

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

-1.2% from ATH

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF

-1.3% from ATH

Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for XLB. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-60% to -55%15
-55% to -50%53
-50% to -45%60
-45% to -40%47
-40% to -35%55
-35% to -30%143
-30% to -25%354
-25% to -20%454
-20% to -15%604
-15% to -10%1076
-10% to -5%1593
-5% to 0%Current2396
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of XLB's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.