Discretionary Services and Goods

XLY delivers a cheap, liquid portfolio of large-cap consumer-discretionary stocks. The fund's expense ratio ranks among the lowest in the segment while its AUM and daily trading volume tower over its competitors. XLY's basket of stocks represents the sector well, despite concentration in the largest names. The fund pulls its holdings from the S&P 500, which differs from the broad-market universe used by competing funds in that it excludes small-caps and most midcaps. The resulting basket contains just a fraction of the names held by our more diverse benchmark; however, industry biases are small and XLY's performance has been marketlike. The fund's average market cap is higher than our benchmark’s, but overall XLY represents the space well at low all-in cost. The fund earns a spot on our Analyst Pick list for solid exposure at very low total cost.