SPYG: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF

What does SPYG hold?#

This fund owns the S&P 500 companies with the strongest growth in sales and earnings. It also looks at which stocks have been rising. Its value goes up and down with big US stocks.

It tracks the S&P 500 Growth Index. It had 152 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to SPDR (State Street).

What is the SPYG expense ratio?#

SPYG charges 0.04% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.04% fee comes to about $4 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 SPYG done since 2000?#

From October 2000 to October 2026, SPYG returned about 7.5% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $65,774 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.

SPYG returns by year#

What was SPYG’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. SPYG’s worst fall was −67.6%, from October 2, 2000 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on December 23, 2013.

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 SPYG?#

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

How does SPYG compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for SPYG:

• VOOG: Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF, 0.07% a year
• IVW: iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF, 0.18% a year
• VUG: Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF, 0.03% a year
• SCHG: Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF, 0.04% a year

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

Test SPYG 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 SPYG, 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 SPYG. 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.