SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF T

score out of 100

NEUTRAL

Plain English

There is a volume warning here. The price has been rising over the past few days, but trading volume has been falling. This is called a divergence. When fewer people are participating in a rally, it can mean the upward move is running out of steam. The price is above both the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. These averages show where the stock has been trading over the past few months and year. Being above both is a sign of a healthy uptrend. Trend conviction is strong and pointing downward, adding weight to the bearish reading. News coverage is leaning negative. Out of 21 recent headlines, 9 were unfavorable compared to 4 positive, with 8 neutral. The stock is trading near its 52-week high. Stocks at new highs often continue climbing, but the risk of a pullback also increases. Overall, SPY does not have a clear direction right now. It could go either way.

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Category: Large Blend

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Positive 5-year return?+80.3% over 5y

Broad-market fund's 5-year total return (not benchmarked vs SPY, the fund covers a different slice of the market).

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Low expense ratio?0.10%

Below 0.5% is typical for index ETFs; below 0.1% is excellent.

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Large enough to be liquid?$783.8B AUM

At least $1B in assets under management, tight bid/ask, low closure risk.

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Pays distributions?Yield 0.98%

Dividend / distribution yield above zero.

Fundamentals-only heuristic. Missing data is shown as "?" and excluded from the score.

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