SPY — SPDR S&P 500 ETF

The ticker SPY represents SPDR S&P 500 ETF, listed on NYSE.

This is an exchange-traded fund — it tracks a basket of assets or an index, so it is inherently more diversified than a single stock.

SPY belongs to the Financial Services sector and the Index ETF industry.

To answer "what is SPY worth" or "what is happening with SPDR S&P 500 ETF", VAQO shows a live price alongside technical analysis, relevant headlines and what other investors think.

VAQO's learning model reads seven technical indicators — short and long momentum, RSI, volatility, volume ratio, moving-average cross and position in the 52-week range — and turns them into transparent opportunity and risk scores.

How S&P 500 (SPY) is trading

S&P 500 (SPY) is up 0.54% at $771.36.

Through the session SPY traded between $766.29 and $772.28, a range worth 0.8% of the share price. The current price sits at 85% of that daily range.

Closing at the top of the daily range is read as a sign of strength: buyers held control into the close rather than giving ground late in the session.

Volume ran near 36.7M shares. Volume matters because it separates a price move backed by broad participation from one driven by a handful of trades.

SPY sector and context

S&P 500 operates in the Financial Services sector, within Index ETF, and is listed on NYSE.

Sector is not a technicality: companies in the same sector move together in response to interest rates, regulation and the economic cycle, and a move in SPY often reflects an industry trend rather than anything happening at the company. The useful comparison is against direct peers, not against the broad index.

Names traded alongside SPY in the same sector: SOFI (SoFi Technologies Inc), COIN (Coinbase Global Inc), HOOD (Robinhood Markets Inc), JPM (JPMorgan Chase & Co), BAC (Bank of America Corp).

What VAQO's model says about SPY

VAQO runs two statistical models over SPY, trained on real market data and executed inside the browser without sending anything to a server. They report three separate measures — momentum, risk and opportunity — instead of a single arrow announcing where the stock is headed.

That separation comes from the numbers themselves: the direction model reaches 54.7% accuracy across 73,781 samples, barely better than a coin flip. The volatility model reaches 77.1% across 120,467 samples, because predicting how much an asset will move is a far easier problem than predicting which way it will move.

In practice for SPY: the risk measure is the more dependable half, and the directional read is a hint rather than a claim. Full accuracy figures are published on the model page, including when they fall.

SPY at a glance

• Symbol: SPY
• Name: SPDR S&P 500 ETF
• Sector: Financial Services
• Industry: Index ETF
• Exchange: NYSE
• Instrument: ETF

SPY — frequently asked questions

Traded alongside SPY

• SOFI — SoFi Technologies Inc
• COIN — Coinbase Global Inc
• HOOD — Robinhood Markets Inc
• JPM — JPMorgan Chase & Co
• BAC — Bank of America Corp
• V — Visa Inc

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Last updated: 2026-09-27