SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust | SPY

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|30/01/2025

by Brendan McCann
This fund offers a well-diversified, market-cap-weighted portfolio of 500 of the largest US stocks. It accurately represents the large-cap opportunity set while charging rock-bottom fees, a recipe for success over the long run.

The fund tracks the flagship S&P 500, which selects 500 of the largest US stocks—roughly 80% of the US equity market—and weights them by market cap. An index committee has discretion over selecting companies that meet certain liquidity and profitability standards. While a committee-based approach may lack clarity, it adds flexibility to reduce unnecessary changes during reconstitution, taming transaction costs compared with more rigid rules-based indexes.

The end portfolio is well-diversified and accurately represents the US large-cap opportunity set. This allows the strategy to capitalize on its low fee and closely track the performance of the large-cap market.

The bedrock of this strategy is market-cap weighting, which harnesses the market’s collective wisdom on the relative value of each holding with the added benefit of low turnover and associated trading costs. It’s a sensible approach because the market tends to do a good job pricing large-cap stocks. Large, highly traded markets tend to reflect new information quickly and are well suited for indexing.

When a few richly valued companies or sectors power most of the market gains, market-cap weighting may expose the strategy to stock- or sector-level concentration risk. As of year-end 2024, the top 10 holdings made up the largest portion of the index (37%) in several decades, and the 34% allocation to technology stocks was the highest since the dot-com bubble. But this is not a fault in design. The S&P 500 simply reflects the market composition. In the long run, its broad diversification, low turnover, and low fee outweigh these risks.
 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™Best-in-class option for large-cap investors.
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Morningstar Pillars
PessoasAbove Average
ParentAbove Average
ProcessoHigh
 
Morningstar Medalist RatingMorningstar assigns the Medalist Rating to funds that are qualitatively and quantitatively assessed through manager research and algorithmic processes. The assessment turns on three key “pillars” – People, Process, and Parent – that yield an estimate of how well a fund will perform before fees but after adjusting for risk.
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