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

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.

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

How has SPYD done since 2015?#

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

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

SPYD returns by year#

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.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

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. 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.

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.