Which is cheaper, ACYN or JANQ?

ACYN charges 0.75% a year and JANQ charges 0.79%, so ACYN is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

ACYN vs JANQ: which paid, and which earned it?

ACYN and JANQ both write options for income. FT Vest Laddered Autocallable Barrier & Income ETF and Innovator Premium Income 40 Barrier ETF - January.

4.5%

ACYN cash paid, since launch

0.0%

JANQ cash paid, since launch

+8.2%

ACYN total return, since launch

0.0%

JANQ total return, since launch

ACYN · since launch to Sep 30, 20262.7 pts behind SPY

ACYN

+8.2%

SPY

+10.9%

2.7 pts behind SPY

ACYN since launch: paid 4.5%, price +3.5%, total +8.2%, SPY +10.9%, −2.7 pts.

SPY

+10.9%

ACYN

+8.2%

4.5% of it arrived as cash

2.7 pts behind SPY

Total return, distributions reinvested

2.7 pts behind SPY

ACYN since launch: paid 4.5%, price +3.5%, total +8.2%, SPY +10.9%, −2.7 pts.

SPY

+10.9%

ACYN

+8.2%

2.7 pts behind SPY

4.5% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. ACYN since launch: paid 4.5%, price +3.5%, total +8.2%, SPY +10.9%, −2.7 pts.

JANQ · since launch to Sep 30, 20260.9 pts behind SPY

JANQ

0.0%

SPY

+0.9%

0.9 pts behind SPY

JANQ since launch: paid 0.0%, price 0.0%, total 0.0%, SPY +0.9%, −0.9 pts.

SPY

+0.9%

JANQ

0.0%

0.9 pts behind SPY

Total return, distributions reinvested

0.9 pts behind SPY

JANQ since launch: paid 0.0%, price 0.0%, total 0.0%, SPY +0.9%, −0.9 pts.

SPY

+0.9%

JANQ

0.0%

0.9 pts behind SPY

0.0% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, 0 to +10.9%. JANQ since launch: paid 0.0%, price 0.0%, total 0.0%, SPY +0.9%, −0.9 pts.

Performance, window by window

	Total return		Cash paid		Against the benchmark
Window	ACYN	JANQ	ACYN	JANQ	ACYN	JANQ
3 months	+3.2%	not published	1.8%	not published	+0.7 pts	not published
6 months	+7.0%	not published	4.4%	not published	−10.0 pts	not published
Since launch ACYN Feb 2026 · JANQ Sep 2026	+8.2%	0.0%	4.5%	0.0%	−2.7 pts	−0.9 pts

ACYN and JANQ over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →

On the same fields

ACYN

FT Vest Laddered Autocallable Barrier & Income ETF · Autocallable on SPY, paying monthly

JANQ

Innovator Premium Income 40 Barrier ETF - January · Defined income on SPY

Issuer First Trust Innovator

Strategy autocallable defined income

Benchmark S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy S&P 500 (SPY)

Pays monthly not established

Payout rate, annualized 9.9% not published

Expense ratio 0.75% 0.79%

Cash paid, 1 year 4.5% (since launch on Feb 25, 2026) 0.0% (since launch on Sep 10, 2026)

Price change, 1 year +3.5% 0.0%

Total return, 1 year +8.2% (since launch on Feb 25, 2026) 0.0% (since launch on Sep 10, 2026)

Benchmark return, 1 year +10.9% +0.9%

Ahead or behind −2.7 pts −0.9 pts

Return of capital, latest estimate not published not published

Age 217 days 20 days

Net assets $2.2bn not published

ACYN and JANQ on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

ACYN in plain words

Over the period since launch on Feb 25, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026, ACYN paid 4.5% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 3.5%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +8.2%. S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy returned +10.9% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 2.7 pts. At its price on Sep 30, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 9.9%, paid monthly.

JANQ in plain words

Over the period since launch on Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026, JANQ paid 0.0% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 0.0%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned 0.0%. S&P 500 (SPY) returned +0.9% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 0.9 pts.

Questions people ask

Which is cheaper, ACYN or JANQ?: ACYN charges 0.75% a year and JANQ charges 0.79%, so ACYN is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

ACYN filings on SEC EDGAR ↗ACYN prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for ACYN ↗JANQ filings on SEC EDGAR ↗JANQ prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Innovator website ↗

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ETFIQ, ACYN against JANQ, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/income/acyn-vs-janq

Open data

Free to use with attribution. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology.