Which is cheaper, ACYS or JANQ?

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

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

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

1.9%

ACYS cash paid, since launch

0.0%

JANQ cash paid, since launch

+4.4%

ACYS total return, since launch

0.0%

JANQ total return, since launch

ACYS · since launch to Sep 30, 20263.8 pts behind SPY

ACYS

+4.4%

SPY

+8.2%

3.8 pts behind SPY

ACYS since launch: paid 1.9%, price +2.4%, total +4.4%, SPY +8.2%, −3.8 pts.

SPY

+8.2%

ACYS

+4.4%

1.9% as cash

3.8 pts behind SPY

Total return, distributions reinvested

3.8 pts behind SPY

ACYS since launch: paid 1.9%, price +2.4%, total +4.4%, SPY +8.2%, −3.8 pts.

SPY

+8.2%

ACYS

+4.4%

3.8 pts behind SPY

1.9% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. ACYS since launch: paid 1.9%, price +2.4%, total +4.4%, SPY +8.2%, −3.8 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 +8.2%. 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	ACYS	JANQ	ACYS	JANQ	ACYS	JANQ
3 months	+2.4%	not published	1.3%	not published	−0.1 pts	not published
Since launch ACYS Apr 2026 · JANQ Sep 2026	+4.4%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	−3.8 pts	−0.9 pts

ACYS 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

ACYS

FT Vest Laddered Autocallable Barrier & Resilient 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 7.7% not published

Expense ratio 0.75% 0.79%

Cash paid, 1 year 1.9% (since launch on Apr 23, 2026) 0.0% (since launch on Sep 10, 2026)

Price change, 1 year +2.4% 0.0%

Total return, 1 year +4.4% (since launch on Apr 23, 2026) 0.0% (since launch on Sep 10, 2026)

Benchmark return, 1 year +8.2% +0.9%

Ahead or behind −3.8 pts −0.9 pts

Return of capital, latest estimate not published not published

Age 160 days 20 days

Net assets $502m not published

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

ACYS in plain words

Over the period since launch on Apr 23, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026, ACYS paid 1.9% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 2.4%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +4.4%. S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy returned +8.2% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 3.8 pts. At its price on Sep 30, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 7.7%, 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, ACYS or JANQ?: ACYS charges 0.75% a year and JANQ charges 0.79%, so ACYS is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

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

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ETFIQ, ACYS against JANQ, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/income/acys-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.