The Underlyings
All information contained herein on the Reference Stocks and on the Reference Stock issuers is derived from publicly available
sources, without independent verification. Each Reference Stock is registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, which we refer to as the Exchange Act. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by a Reference Stock issuer pursuant
to the Exchange Act can be located by reference to the SEC file number specified below, and can be accessed through www.sec.gov.
We do not make any representation that these publicly available documents are accurate or complete.
According to its publicly available filings with the SEC, Amazon.com, Inc. serves consumers through its online and physical stores;
manufactures and sells electronic devices; develops and produces media content; offers subscription services, such as Amazon Prime;
offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products in its stores and to fulfill orders using Amazon’s services; offers developers and
enterprises a set of on-demand technology services, including compute, storage, database, analytics and machine learning and other
service offerings; offers programs that allow authors, independent publishers, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, skill and app
developers and others to publish and sell content; and provides advertising services to sellers, vendors, publishers, authors and others,
through programs such as sponsored ads, display and video advertising. The common stock of Amazon.com, Inc., par value $0.01 per
share (Bloomberg ticker: AMZN), is registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which we refer to as the
Exchange Act, and is listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market, which we refer to as the relevant exchange for purposes of Amazon.com,
Inc. in the accompanying product supplement. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by Amazon.com, Inc. pursuant to the
Exchange Act can be located by reference to the SEC file number 000-22513, and can be accessed through www.sec.gov. We do not
make any representation that these publicly available documents are accurate or complete.
According to its publicly available filings with the SEC, NVIDIA Corporation is a full-stack computing infrastructure company with data-
center-scale offerings whose full-stack includes the CUDA programming model that runs on all of its graphics processing units (GPUs),
as well as domain-specific software libraries, software development kits and Application Programming Interfaces and whose data-
center-scale offerings include compute and networking solutions that can scale to tens of thousands of GPU-accelerated servers
interconnected to function as a single giant computer. The common stock of NVIDIA Corporation, par value $0.001 per share
(Bloomberg ticker: NVDA), is registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which we refer to as the Exchange
Act, and is listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market, which we refer to as the relevant exchange for purposes of NVIDIA Corporation in the
accompanying product supplement. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by NVIDIA Corporation pursuant to the Exchange Act
can be located by reference to the SEC file number 000-23985, and can be accessed through www.sec.gov. We do not make any
representation that these publicly available documents are accurate or complete.
The Fund is an exchange-traded fund of the Select Sector SPDR® Trust, a registered investment company, that 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, which we refer to as the Underlying Index with respect to the Fund. The Utilities Select
Sector Index is a capped modified market capitalization-based index that measures the performance of the GICS® utilities sector of the
S&P 500® Index, which currently includes companies in the following industries: electric utilities; water utilities; multi-utilities;
independent power and renewable electricity producers; and gas utilities. For additional information about the Fund, see “Fund
Descriptions — The Select Sector SPDR® Funds” in the accompanying underlying supplement.
Historical Information
The following graphs set forth the historical performance of each Underlying based on the weekly historical closing values from January
3, 2020 through January 31, 2025. The closing value of the common stock of Amazon.com Inc. on February 6, 2025 was $238.83.
The closing value of the common stock of NVIDIA Corporation on February 6, 2025 was $128.68. The closing value of the Fund on
February 6, 2025 was $78.30. We obtained the closing values above and below from the Bloomberg Professional® service
(“Bloomberg”), without independent verification. The closing values of the Reference Stocks above and below may have been adjusted
by Bloomberg for corporate actions, such as stock splits, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, delistings and
bankruptcy. The closing values of the Fund above and below may have been adjusted by Bloomberg for actions taken by the Fund,
such as stock splits.
The historical closing values of each Underlying should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be
given as to the closing value of any Underlying on any Review Date. There can be no assurance that the performance of the
Underlyings will result in the return of any of your principal amount or the payment of any interest.