State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (SPYD)

How has SPYD done since 2015?#

From October 2015 to October 2026, SPYD returned about 8.9% a year. The S&P 500 returned about 14.5% a year over the same dates. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $25,579 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

SPYD returns by month and year#

SPYD rose in 85 of its 133 months (64%). Its best month was November 2020, at 16.6%. Its worst was March 2020, at −26.8%.

How risky is SPYD compared with the S&P 500?#

Measured from October 2021 to October 2026, on the days both traded.

• Beta 0.63. When the S&P 500 moved 1% in a day, SPYD tended to move about 0.63%.
• Correlation 0.68. SPYD moved with the S&P 500 some of the time.
• Up and down months. In months the S&P 500 rose, SPYD rose 79% as much on average. In months it fell, SPYD fell 88% as much.

Is SPYD above its 200-day average?#

SPYD closed 1.9% above its 200-day average on October 16, 2026. A rule that holds SPYD only above that average would hold it today.

What was SPYD’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. SPYD’s worst fall was −46.4%, from January 16, 2020 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on February 24, 2021. On October 16, 2026 it was 5.8% below its highest close.

What does SPYD hold?#

This fund owns about 80 S&P 500 companies that pay the highest dividends. It holds far fewer stocks than the S&P 500. High payouts can be cut when a company has trouble.

It tracks the S&P 500 High Dividend Index. It had 78 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to SPDR (State Street).

What is the SPYD expense ratio?#

SPYD charges 0.07% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.07% fee comes to about $7 a year. Of the 162 ETFs on Tactfolio, 69% charge more.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold SPYD?#

No classic strategy holds SPYD yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does SPYD compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for SPYD:

• VYM: Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, 0.04% a year
• SCHD: Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF, 0.06% a year
• HDV: iShares Core High Dividend ETF, 0.08% a year
• SPHD: Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, 0.3% a year

See all 8 SPYD alternatives, compared on the same dates as SPYD.

Test SPYD in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add SPYD, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for SPYD and SPY. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Beta and correlation compare daily returns with the S&P 500 over the same dates.

Fund facts come from SPDR (State Street). We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.