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Best Mutual Funds Awards 2025: Best Sector Stock Funds

If you're evaluating mutual funds for your investment portfolio or retirement account, this list highlights the best sector funds to consider now, based on each fund outperforming the S&P 500 over the past one-, three-, five- and 10-year periods.

Shaded cells in the table below indicate the five best-of-the-best funds based on 10-year performance. Of 281 sector funds at least 10 years old, just 14 of them, or 5%, won awards.

A sector fund invests in a particular sector of the economy — energy or utilities, for example. There are many different types of sector funds, and they can differ significantly in terms of the market capitalization of the stocks they own and their investment objectives (e.g. growth vs. income). Morningstar says of sector funds, "These picks are good for plugging holes or tilting a portfolio toward a certain part of the market."

For more details, read about how the best mutual funds deliver benchmark-beating returns, and see the full 2025 list of IBD's Best Mutual Funds in every category, including bond funds, diversified stock funds, blend and index funds, and breakouts of large-cap, midcap and small-cap funds.

All returns are as of Dec. 31, 2023.

Best Sector Funds

Fund Symbol 1-year total return 3-year total return 5-year total return 10-year total return Morningstar category Annual report net expense ratio
Benchmark: S&P 500 25.02% 8.94% 14.53% 13.1o%
Fidelity Select Semiconductors FSELX 43.51 18.34 30.60 25.99 Technology 0.67%
Fidelity Advisor Semiconductors I FELIX 44.08 18.06 30.22 25.77 Technology 0.71
Fidelity Advisor Technology I FATIX 35.37 11.41 23.72 21.99 Technology 0.70
Fidelity Select Technology FSPTX 35.28 10.93 22.2 21.07 Technology 0.68
Putnam Global Technology Y PGTYX 27.62 9.95 20.44 20.44 Technology 0.82
Columbia Global Technology Growth Inst CMTFX 31.7 10.57 20.06 20.18 Technology 0.92
DWS Science and Technology A KTCAX 40.55 11.91 20.27 18.31 Technology 0.88
Nationwide Bailard Tech & Sci M NWHQX 27.1 9.06 18.35 17.66 Technology 0.88
MFS Technology A MTCAX 36.47 10.24 17.28 17.6 Technology 1.12
T. Rowe Price Science & Tech PRSCX 40.27 11.8 16.54 17.28 Technology 0.81
Wireless WIREX 38.33 12.51 19.80 16.57 Technology 1.95
Kinetics Internet No Load WWWFX 76.44 20.13 25.62 15.95 Miscellaneous Sector 1.75
Kinetics Spin-Off and Corp Rest Adv A LSHAX 82.36 26.9 25.14 15.5 Miscellaneous Sector 1.50
Fidelity Select Brokerage & Inv Mgmt FSLBX 35.74 12.67 19.77 13.19 Financial 0.75
Sources: IBD, Morningstar Direct

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