NextEra Energy

Southern Company

Duke Energy

Constellation Energy Corp

Sempra Energy

Vistra Energy

American Electric Power Company

Dominion Energy

PG&E

Public Service Enterprise Group

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund

XLU tracks a market-cap-weighted index of US utilities stocks drawn exclusively from the S&P 500.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund

Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund

Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund

Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund

Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund

Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund

Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund

Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund

Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund

The S&P 500 surged this year, but four sectors performed even better.

Best Performing Sector ETFs Of The Year

First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund

iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF

iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF

iShares U.S. Consumer Goods ETF

A few are still in green with most of them from the defensive sectors like utilities, healthcare and consumer staples.

5 Best-Performing ETFs of December

First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF

iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF

Invesco Russell 1000 Low Beta Equal Weight ETF

The Acquirers Fund ETF

Despite the broad indices' losses, a few ETFs survived last week's turmoil.

5 ETFs That Survived the Last Week's Rout

Ares Capital

Charter Communications

AT&T

Reaves Utility Income Fund

Verizon

Today, your idle cash is yielding minus 6.2% based on the latest inflation figures. The economy is booming, powered by massive government spending.

Your Cash Is Trash, 2 Big Dividends That Won't Stop Growing

SPDR Gold Trust

US Global Jets ETF

SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN Class A

Direxion Work From Home ETF

SPDR S&P Retail ETF

Worries over just how bad the newest COVID variant will be have sent the market on a rout.

New COVID Variant Fears Rattle Markets

XLU has returned a total of less than 4% over the past year. XLU is still below the pre-COVID 2020 high close.

XLU: Utility Sector Not Compelling At Current Level

iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF

iShares TIPS Bond ETF

Vanguard Health Care ETF

Considering inflation is one of the critical economic issues today, investors and analysts would benefit from in-depth research regarding its causes and effects. Inflation is rising due to production cuts, high job quits, and ongoing monetary and fiscal stimulus.

Inflation Will Accelerate Until The Economy Hits The Wall

iShares U.S. Utilities ETF

Vanguard Utilities ETF

Let's take a look at some big utility earnings releases and see if these can leave an impact on ETFs exposed to the space.

Will Utility ETFs Keep Gaining on Decent Q3 Earnings Results?

Value Line Geometric Average shows little net progress since June. The choppy market environment is the result of sector rotation.

Banks, Retail Stocks Are Relative Strength Leaders

The utilities sector isn't setting the world on fire this year. For example, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLU), the largest exchange traded fund dedicated to the sector, is up just 7.26% year-to-date while the S&P 500 is higher by 21.19%.

Retirees Might Want to Give Utilities Another Look

First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance ETF

First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF

Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF

Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF

First Trust Industrials/Producer Durables AlphaDEX Fund

First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund

iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF

iShares U.S. Industrials ETF

John Hancock Multifactor Industrials ETF

John Hancock Dynamic Municipal Bond ETF

iShares Global Utilities ETF

Invesco S&P SmallCap Utilities & Communication Services ETF

Invesco DWA Utilities Momentum ETF

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Industrials ETF

Global X Renewable Energy Producers ETF

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF

ProShares UltraShort Industrials

Reaves Utilities ETF

ProShares Ultra Industrials

Vanguard Industrials ETF

Industrial production – manufacturing output, oil-and-gas extraction, mining, and gas and electric utilities – fell 1.3% in September from August, pushed down by production of motor vehicles and parts, which plunged 7.2% for the month, and by oil and gas extraction, which fell 3.8%. Manufacturing of motor vehicles and parts has been hobbled all year by supply semiconductor shortages that have led to rotating shutdowns of parts manufacturing operations and assembly plants.

Vehicle & Parts Production Plunged To Lowest Since Lockdown; Oil & Gas Has New Script

Digital Realty Trust

Mid-America Apartment Communities

Realty Income Corp

Prologis

Invesco QQQ

Vanguard Real Estate ETF

Rental property investments look great on the surface, but their returns are rather disappointing once you properly account for all the expenses. REITs, on the other hand, are less sexy and get a lot less attention, but they produce a lot better returns with lower risk in most cases.

Why I Sold My Rental Property To Buy REITs Instead

ARK Innovation ETF

UiPath

SoFi Technologies

Splunk

An inclination towards this strategy can be seen with the bids for exceptionally safe dividend drivers like utilities, real estate, & consumer staples, combined with a growing penchant for speculative innovation-fueled equities.

Applying A Barbell Investment Strategy To Protect Against Stagflation

iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF

A myriad of concerns has made investors jittery, resulting in a flight to defensive sectors like utilities, real estate, healthcare and consumer staples.

4 Defensive Sector ETFs to Protect Your Portfolio

Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF

VanEck Vectors Retail ETF

Invesco DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF

After a downbeat September, October started on a volatile note. Soaring oil and gas prices, still-high coronavirus cases and Fed's taper talks are the negatives while the upcoming holiday season could act as a positive to Wall Street.

6 ETFs to Likely to Bloom in October

Growing up, I heard Utility stocks were for grandma and widows. With climate change and near-inflation yields, is that still true or should I tell my grandmother to sell? XLU holds 28 companies across multiple segments of the Utility Industry. Gone are the days that Ma Bell was classified as a utility company.

XLU: Not Your Grandmother's ETF Anymore

iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

iShares Russell 1000 ETF

iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF

Trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace amounted to EUR 29.4 billion in August, while the proportion of transactions completed via Tradeweb's Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 71.4%. Total consolidated U.S. ETF notional value traded in August 2021 reached USD 21.3 billion.

Tradeweb Exchange-Traded Funds Update - August 2021

iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF

Pacer Benchmark Industrial Real Estate SCTR ETF

VanEck Vectors Oil Services ETF

Simplify Volt RoboCar Disruption and Tech ETF

Simplify Volt Cloud and Cybersecurity Disruption ETF

Simplify Volt Fintech Disruption ETF

Simplify Volt Pop Culture Disruption ETF

These funds are at the mercy of concentrated holdings.

ETFs With The Most Single Stock Risk

Global X Social Media ETF

VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF

US Diversified Real Estate ETF

Warren Buffett has suggested a few investing techniques that can be practiced at the time of rising inflation.

Follow Buffett With These Inflation-Friendly ETF Strategies

MGM Growth Properties

Medical Properties Trust

Vici Properties

Dividend growth companies outperformed non-dividend payers and flat dividend payers during the past 50 years. However, the market is exuberantly priced right now, making companies like these difficult to find.

My Favorite Dividend Growth Picks

A myriad of hurdles has continued to kept investors jittery and resulted in a flight to defensive sectors like utilities, real estate, healthcare and consumer staples.

Climb the "Wall of Worry" With These ETFs

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

The stock market showed little reaction to one economic report on Friday that technical analyst Tom Aspray thinks may help determine which sectors will lead for the rest of the year.

Will Consumer Fears Determine The Sector Winners?

A dashboard with industry metrics in utilities.

XLU: Utilities Dashboard For August

The sector is now trading at a 52-week high, and some investors are counting on momentum to carry it still higher. But if risk appetite picks up, investors might prefer exposure to more cyclical sectors.

Utilities: Why the Power Play May Be Ending

Invesco KBW Bank ETF

SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF

iShares MBS ETF

ProShares UltraPro QQQ

During Refinitiv Lipper's fund-flows week ended August 11, 2021, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the third consecutive week, accumulating $24.7 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $6.0 billion in weekly net inflows. This is the macro-group's third straight week of net inflows, and it returned a positive 0.83% on average.

U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Reflation Trade Awakens, Financial/Banking ETFs Realize Largest Weekly Inflows Since May

News for Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF (XLU)