Data as of Nov 4, 2026.
DIVO vs FTQI: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, FTQI paid 12.1% of its price in cash against DIVO’s 6.8%, and returned more with it reinvested.
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Net assets on Nov 3, 2026: $8.0bn for Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF and $997m for First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF.
About even with SPY
DIVO over 1 year: paid 6.8%, price +7.9%, total +15.2%, SPY +14.8%, +0.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
SPY
+14.8%
DIVO
+15.2%
6.8% of it arrived as cash
about even with SPY
Total return, distributions reinvested
About even with SPY
DIVO over 1 year: paid 6.8%, price +7.9%, total +15.2%, SPY +14.8%, +0.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
SPY
+14.8%
DIVO
+15.2%
about even with SPY
6.8% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. DIVO over 1 year: paid 6.8%, price +7.9%, total +15.2%, SPY +14.8%, +0.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Data to Nov 4, 2026.4.2 pts ahead of QQQ
FTQI over 1 year: paid 12.1%, price +3.5%, total +16.5%, QQQ +12.3%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
QQQ
+12.3%
FTQI
+16.5%
12.1% of it arrived as cash
4.2 pts ahead of QQQ
Total return, distributions reinvested
4.2 pts ahead of QQQ
FTQI over 1 year: paid 12.1%, price +3.5%, total +16.5%, QQQ +12.3%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
QQQ
+12.3%
FTQI
+16.5%
12.1% as cash
4.2 pts ahead of QQQ
12.1% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, 0 to +16.5%. FTQI over 1 year: paid 12.1%, price +3.5%, total +16.5%, QQQ +12.3%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Both charts share one scale, 0 to +16.5%. Data to Nov 4, 2026.Pair scorecard
DIVO costs 0.19 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.3 points; DIVO is 8.0 times larger.
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Measure | DIVO | FTQI |
|---|---|---|
| Paid and earned | ||
| Total return, 1 year | +15.2% | +16.5% |
| Price change, 1 year | rose 7.9% | rose 3.5% |
| Return of capital, issuer estimate | 88% of the Oct 30, 2026 payment | 99% of the Oct 30, 2026 payment |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| Benchmark | S&P 500, measured through SPY | Nasdaq-100, measured through QQQ |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.56% | 0.75% |
| Net assets, as of Nov 3, 2026 | $8.0bn | $997m |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 17% | |
How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 167 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 100 is best. How it is computed
One year only, and a ratio of two published numbers: it says nothing about where a distribution came from. All income ETFs ranked by it →
Risk and return
Dec 23, 2016 to Oct 30, 2026 · 514 weekly returnsEach against its own benchmark: DIVO against SPY, Dec 23, 2016 to Oct 30, 2026; FTQI against QQQ, Jan 17, 2014 to Oct 30, 2026.
From Dec 2016 to Oct 2026, DIVO returned more: +220.5% to +104.2%. FTQI swung less: 11.6% to 13.9%. FTQI fell less at its worst: −18.5% to −27.7%.
Full scorecard
19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | DIVO | FTQI | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | ||||
| Total return | +220.5% | +104.2% | DIVO | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. |
| Annualized | +12.5% | +7.5% | DIVO | Total return as a yearly rate. |
| Price return | +88.8% | +1.8% | DIVO | Price change alone, distributions left out. |
| Risk | ||||
| Volatility | 13.9% | 11.6% | FTQI | Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier. |
| Downside deviation | 9.8% | 8.4% | FTQI | Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate. |
| Max drawdown | −27.7% | −18.5% | FTQI | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. |
| Upside capture | 62.8% | 31.2% | Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose. | |
| Downside capture | 76.1% | 58.3% | Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better. | |
| Beta | 0.73 | 0.45 | Not an edge | How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves. |
| R squared | 0.82 | 0.55 | Not an edge | Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains. |
| Risk-adjusted | ||||
| Sharpe | 0.74 | 0.46 | DIVO | Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility. |
| Sortino | 1.04 | 0.64 | DIVO | Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation. |
| Treynor | 0.139 | 0.123 | Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta. | |
| Calmar | 0.45 | 0.41 | DIVO | Annualized return divided by the max drawdown. |
| Against the benchmark | ||||
| Benchmark | SPY | QQQ | The ETF each fund is measured against. | |
| Alpha | +0.9% a year | −2.0% a year | Not significant | Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts. |
| Alpha t-stat | 0.47 | −0.90 | Not an edge | How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance. |
| Alpha range | −2.8% to +4.6% | −6.4% to +2.4% | Includes zero | The 95% range for the yearly alpha. |
| Information ratio | −0.33 | −0.84 | Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error. | |
| Tracking error | 7.5% | 13.4% | Not an edge | How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 514 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, DIVO and FTQI hold 17% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Nov 3, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026.
half
17% in common
Only in one fund ↓
Side by side
As of Nov 4, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. Cash paid: distributions over the window, as a share of the starting price. Payout rate: the latest payment, annualized, over today’s price.
Window by window
| Total return | Cash paid | Against the benchmark | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | DIVO | FTQI | DIVO | FTQI | DIVO | FTQI |
| 3 months | +1.5% | +0.4% | 1.2% | 3.0% | +1.6 pts | +3.8 pts |
| 6 months | +7.7% | +6.6% | 2.5% | 6.0% | +2.7 pts | +6.9 pts |
| 1 year | +15.2% | +16.5% | 6.8% | 12.1% | +0.4 pts | +4.3 pts |
| 3 years | +61.8% | +60.8% | 19.8% | 38.1% | −21.1 pts | −30.5 pts |
| Since launchNot the same days: DIVO Dec 2016 · FTQI Jan 2014 | +226.1% | +138.8% | 73.9% | 81.1% | −71.7 pts | −641.3 pts |
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DIVO
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, DIVO paid 6.8% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 7.9%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +15.2%. S&P 500 (SPY) returned +14.8% over the same days, so a holder was about even. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 4.8%, paid monthly. Amplify estimates that 88% of the distribution paid Oct 30, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
FTQI
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, FTQI paid 12.1% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 3.5%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +16.5%. Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) returned +12.3% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 4.2 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 12.3%, paid monthly. First Trust estimates that 99% of the distribution paid Oct 30, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice).
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