SPYM: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF

What does SPYM hold?#

This fund owns the roughly 500 large US companies in the S&P 500. It charges a yearly fee of just 0.02%. Its value goes up and down with big US stocks.

It tracks the S&P 500 Index. It had 505 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to SPDR (State Street).

What is the SPYM expense ratio?#

SPYM charges 0.02% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.02% fee comes to about $2 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 SPYM done since 2005?#

From November 2005 to October 2026, SPYM returned about 11.2% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $92,229 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.

SPYM returns by year#

What was SPYM’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. SPYM’s worst fall was −54.5%, from October 10, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on March 16, 2012.

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 SPYM?#

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

How does SPYM compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for SPYM:

• IVV: iShares Core S&P 500 ETF, 0.03% a year
• VOO: Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, 0.03% a year
• SPY: State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, 0.0945% a year
• ITOT: iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF, 0.03% a year

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

Test SPYM 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 SPYM, 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 SPYM. 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.