For Risk-Taking Investors, Check Out Oil Dividends
October 11, 2019 at 08:00 AM EDT
The SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF ( XOP B+ ) is one of the more volatile ways for investors to tap the energy patch. Due to exploration and production stocks historically being highly sensitive to oil’s price gyrations, XOP can be a turbulent bet as highlighted by the fact that the ETF has lost more than half its value over the past year.