Xcel Energy, Inc. is an electric and natural gas delivery company. It operates through the following three segments: Regulated Electric, Regulated Natural Gas Utility and All Others. The Regulated Electric segment focuses on generating, purchasing, transmitting, and distributing electricity. The Regulated Natural Gas Utility segment includes purchases, transport, stores, distribution, and sales. The All Others segment involves steam, appliance repair services, non-utility real estate activities, revenues associated with processing solid waste into refuse-derived fuel, investments in rental housing projects that qualify for low-income housing tax credits and equity method investments in energy impact partners funds. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the Utilities Select Sector Index. In seeking to track the performance of the index, the fund employs a replication strategy. It generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index. The index includes securities of companies from the following industries: electric utilities; water utilities; multi-utilities; independent power and renewable electricity producers; and gas utilities. The fund is non-diversified.