# SECT Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium

> SECT trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.

Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Nov 4, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

## SECT bid-ask spread and liquidity

As of Nov 4, 2026, SECT’s holdings can absorb at most up to $456m a day.

### IQ Liquidity Score

Not scored, 1 of 6 measured.

A fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. How the score is built

Flags: One dealer.

Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity Holdings can absorb up to $456m a day; part of the book has no volume data Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 50.0 4 active dealers of 6; largest 85% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Oct 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: no daily closing premium is held for this fund Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2)

### Capacity

Its holdings can absorb up to $456m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 4, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is SELECT SECTOR SPDR TRUST (THE) (XLK), 38.39% of the fund.

### Dealers

4 active of 6 authorized participants; the largest did 85% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 14, 2026).

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Virtu Americas LLC (85.2%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (9.0%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (5.0%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (0.8%). 2 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.

### How to trade SECT

When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund’s own day once it has trade data. Size Part of its book has no volume data, so the room for a large order is an upper bound.

### What retail orders paid

In Sep 2026, retail market orders in SECT paid $0.78 one way on $10,000, against $2.49 at the quote. 80% of shares filled better than the quote.

| Orders | One way on $10,000 |
| --- | --- |
| All wholesalers read | $0.78 |
| Fidelity customers | $0.27 |
| Schwab customers | $1.26 |

| Month | One way on $10,000 |
| --- | --- |
| Aug 2025 (old format) | $0.97 |
| Sep 2025 (old format) | $0.70 |
| Oct 2025 (old format) | $0.95 |
| Nov 2025 (old format) | $0.74 |
| Dec 2025 (old format) | $0.81 |
| Jan 2026 (old format) | $1.04 |
| Feb 2026 (old format) | $0.97 |
| Mar 2026 (old format) | $0.55 |
| Apr 2026 (old format) | $0.70 |
| May 2026 (old format) | $0.78 |
| Jun 2026 (old format) | $0.33 |
| Jul 2026 (old format) | $0.83 |
| Aug 2026 | $0.80 |
| Sep 2026 | $0.78 |

### Where it trades

In Q2 2026, odd lots were 17.1% of SECT’s exchange volume.

### Coming with trade data

Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction’s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.

### Questions people ask

Who is the AP for SECT? SECT’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 6 authorized participants (APs), and 4 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Virtu Americas LLC (85.2%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (9.0%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (5.0%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SECT? SECT’s lead market maker (LMM) on Cboe BZX is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per Cboe BZX, as of Nov 1, 2026.

### Sources and dates

- Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume, to Nov 4, 2026.

- Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Oct 31, 2025, accession 0000910472-26-000267.

- Retail orders: SEC Rule 605 reports, Sep 2026, from Charles Schwab, G1 Execution Services, Fidelity Brokerage Services, Robinhood, HRT Financial, Jane Street Capital, Vanguard. Computed by ETFIQ. Citadel Securities refused ETFIQ’s request, so its orders are not counted.

- Where it trades: SEC MIDAS, Q2 2026.

### Where to next

The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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