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BALI vs FTHI: which paid, and which earned it?

Over the year FTHI paid 8.9% of its price in cash against BALI’s 8.5%, though BALI returned more with it reinvested.

iShares U.S. Large Cap Premium Income Active ETF and First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF.

8.5%BALI cash paid, 1 year
8.9%FTHI cash paid, 1 year
+18.5%BALI total return, 1 year
+9.7%FTHI total return, 1 year

ETFIQ Return Stability Score: BALI scores higher

Was the payout funded by returns, or by your own capital?

BALI 86.1FTHI 50.83.8, the lowest in this set96.8, the highest

A percentile among the 173 income ETFs writing on an index or proxy. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All income ETFs ranked by it · How it is computed

BALI2 pts ahead of SPY · 1 year to Sep 18, 2026
SPY+16.6%BALI+18.5%8.5% of it arrived as cash2 pts ahead of SPYTotal return, distributions reinvestedSPY+16.6%BALI+18.5%2 pts ahead of SPY
FTHI6.9 pts behind SPY · 1 year to Sep 18, 2026
SPY+16.6%FTHI+9.7%8.9% of it arrived as cash6.9 pts behind SPYTotal return, distributions reinvestedSPY+16.6%FTHI+9.7%6.9 pts behind SPY

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, BALI and FTHI hold 46% of their money in the same securities at the same weight.

Positions BALI and FTHI both hold, largest shared weight first
HoldingBALIFTHI
NVIDIA7.36%6.90%
APPLE6.15%7.75%
MICROSOFT5.07%2.94%
AMAZON.COM INC3.29%2.53%
ALPHABET CLASS A2.70%2.41%
BROADCOM INC2.25%2.01%
ALPHABET CLASS C2.38%1.74%
COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP1.64%1.74%
META PLATFORMS CLASS A1.80%1.31%
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO1.20%2.67%
MICRON TECHNOLOGY1.50%1.10%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP1.74%1.09%
Only in each
Only in BALIOnly in FTHI
BLK CSH FND TREASURY SL AGENCY 2.91%US Dollar 5.90%
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CLASS B 1.69%ASML Holding N.V. (New York Registry Shares) 2.17%
VISA CLASS A 1.55%Linde Plc 1.11%
PROCTER & GAMBLE 1.45%Coca-Cola European Partners Plc 1.00%
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 1.31%Union Pacific Corporation 0.90%
USD CASH 1.06%Altria Group, Inc. 0.76%
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.99%Jackson Financial Inc. (Class A) 0.74%
ABBOTT LABORATORIES 0.91%Colgate-Palmolive Company 0.71%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Sep 18, 2026.

Performance, window by window

BALI and FTHI over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ.
WindowTotal returnCash paidAgainst the benchmark
BALIFTHIBALIFTHIBALIFTHI
3 months+4.0%+1.7%2.0%2.2%+1.8 pts−0.6 pts
6 months+17.3%+9.8%4.7%4.6%−0.8 pts−8.2 pts
1 year+18.5%+9.7%8.5%8.9%+2.0 pts−6.9 pts
3 yearsnot published+47.9%not published28.9%not published−30.5 pts
Since launch+76.3%+156.3%29.2%82.6%−8.0 pts−257.8 pts
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BALI and FTHI on the same fields, as of Sep 18, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
BALI
iShares U.S. Large Cap Premium Income Active ETF
Covered call on SPY, paying monthly
FTHI
First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF
Covered call on SPY, paying monthly
IssueriSharesFirst Trust
Strategycovered callcovered call
BenchmarkS&P 500 (SPY)S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy
Paysmonthlymonthly
Payout rate, annualized7.5%9.0%
Expense ratio0.35%0.75%
Cash paid, 1 year8.5%8.9%
Price change, 1 year+9.2%+0.3%
Total return, 1 year+18.5%+9.7%
Benchmark return, 1 year+16.6%+16.6%
Ahead or behind+2.0 pts−6.9 pts
Return of capital, latest estimatenot publishednot published
Age1086 days4637 days
Net assets$1.5bn$2.5bn

BALI in plain words

Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, BALI paid 8.5% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 9.2%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +18.5%. S&P 500 (SPY) returned +16.6% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 2.0 pts. At its price on Sep 18, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 7.5%, paid monthly.

FTHI in plain words

Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, FTHI paid 8.9% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 0.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +9.7%. S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy returned +16.6% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 6.9 pts. At its price on Sep 18, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 9.0%, paid monthly.

Questions people ask

Which paid more, BALI or FTHI?
Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, BALI paid 8.5% of its starting price in cash and FTHI paid 8.9%, so FTHI paid more. Cash paid is not the same as money made: the price change matters too.
Which returned more once distributions are counted, BALI or FTHI?
With every distribution reinvested, BALI returned +18.5% and FTHI returned +9.7% over the year to Sep 18, 2026, so BALI returned more.
Which is cheaper, BALI or FTHI?
BALI charges 0.35% a year and FTHI charges 0.75%, so BALI is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

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BALI against FTHI, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 18, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. A comparison is not a recommendation.

Cite this page. ETFIQ, BALI against FTHI, data as of Sep 18, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/income/bali-vs-fthi Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.

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