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Forget QQQ: This ETF Marries the Magnificent 7 and Communications

Written by Jordan Chussler. Published 9/7/2025.

The technology sector often dominates headlines among financial media, retail investors and sell-side analysts. It hosts the largest players driving the AI rally and includes most of the Magnificent Seven stocks. Consequently, ETFs targeting this sector's growth prospects frequently top investors' watch lists.

One prominent example is the Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (NASDAQ: QQQ), which manages $364.4 billion in assets. As expected, its top 10 holdings include all of the Magnificent Seven plus Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), its largest holding, represents 9.95% of the portfolio.

In fact, QQQ's top 10 positions account for 52.2% of its assets, highlighting a significant concentration risk. For investors seeking broader exposure, one sector—and a fund that tracks it—offers a more balanced approach by blending Magnificent Seven exposure with leading telecom, media and entertainment companies.

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Key Points

Since the S&P 500’s September 2018 rebalancing, communication services has become an earnings powerhouse.
The XLC, which tracks the sector, provides exposure to the Magnificent Seven as well as telecom, media, and entertainment stocks.
The fund isn’t as large as the more popular QQQ, but it carries a lower expense ratio and pays a higher dividend.

In September 2018, the S&P 500 reclassified several major tech names—such as Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Netflix—into the Communication Services sector. The results have been impressive.

Over the next six years, Communication Services ranked among the top three sectors four times, delivering notable returns: 32.7% in 2019, 23.6% in 2020, 21.6% in 2021, 55.8% in 2023 and a market-leading 40.2% year-to-date in 2024.

The only negative year was 2022, when it fell 39.9% in the prolonged bear market. Still, across the other five years since the 2018 reclassification, Communication Services has averaged an annual return of 16.33%.

This year, the sector leads all 11 S&P 500 industries with an 18.6% year-to-date gain, well ahead of the next-best performer—Industrials—at 14.8%. Importantly, Communication Services combines growth potential and steady consumer demand with defensive traits during market downturns.

Why the XLC Is an All-in-One ETF

Since its inception in June 2018, the State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA: XLC) has returned 127.4%, compared with a 91.7% gain for the QQQ over the same period.

XLC's $26.1 billion in AUM is modest next to QQQ, but its 0.08% expense ratio and 0.92% dividend yield are more attractive than QQQ's 0.20% and 0.49%, respectively.

Although XLC's top holding, Meta Platforms, accounts for 18.8%—more than QQQ allocates to NVIDIA—the rest of XLC's portfolio is more diversified, implying lower volatility.

Beyond Meta, Alphabet (Class A and C) and Netflix, XLC's top 10 holdings include:

This broader mix yields lower risk: XLC's implied volatility (IV) sits at 10.9%—its lowest level in 52 weeks—while QQQ's IV is 17.45%.

XLC trades at a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 19.4x—a reasonable valuation in a market of lofty multiples—compared with QQQ's 33.3x, which exceeds the Nasdaq's 29.8x and the S&P 500's 29.0x.

The Smart Money Loves the XLC

One gauge of Wall Street sentiment is short interest and institutional ownership. Currently, XLC's short interest is just 2,500 shares (0.000001% of its float), down from 6.29 million shares a month ago.

Over the past 12 months, 836 institutions have added to XLC while 551 have reduced positions, resulting in $21.59 million in inflows versus $2.77 billion in outflows. In Q2 alone, institutions purchased $19 billion of XLC and sold only $700 million.

Analysts assign XLC a Moderate Buy rating: three Buys, 14 Moderate Buys and one Sell.

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