Data as of Nov 4, 2026.
DJIA vs PAPI: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, DJIA paid 10.1% of its price in cash against PAPI’s 8.2%, though PAPI returned more with it reinvested.
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Net assets: $191m on Oct 12, 2026 for Global X Dow 30 Covered Call ETF, and $400m on Jun 30, 2026 for Parametric Equity Premium Income ETF.
1 pt behind DIA
DJIA over 1 year: paid 10.1%, price +2.9%, total +13.9%, DIA +14.9%, −1.0 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
DIA
+14.9%
DJIA
+13.9%
10.1% as cash
1 pt behind DIA
Total return, distributions reinvested
1 pt behind DIA
DJIA over 1 year: paid 10.1%, price +2.9%, total +13.9%, DIA +14.9%, −1.0 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
DIA
+14.9%
DJIA
+13.9%
1 pt behind DIA
10.1% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. DJIA over 1 year: paid 10.1%, price +2.9%, total +13.9%, DIA +14.9%, −1.0 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Data to Nov 4, 2026.9.4 pts behind IWD
PAPI over 1 year: paid 8.2%, price +14.3%, total +23.4%, IWD +32.8%, −9.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
IWD
+32.8%
PAPI
+23.4%
8.2% as cash
9.4 pts behind IWD
Total return, distributions reinvested
9.4 pts behind IWD
PAPI over 1 year: paid 8.2%, price +14.3%, total +23.4%, IWD +32.8%, −9.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
IWD
+32.8%
PAPI
+23.4%
9.4 pts behind IWD
8.2% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, 0 to +32.8%. PAPI over 1 year: paid 8.2%, price +14.3%, total +23.4%, IWD +32.8%, −9.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Both charts share one scale, 0 to +32.8%. Data to Nov 4, 2026.Pair scorecard
PAPI costs 0.31 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 9.5 points.
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Measure | DJIA | PAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Paid and earned | ||
| Total return, 1 year | +13.9% | +23.4% |
| Price change, 1 year | rose 2.9% | rose 14.3% |
| Return of capital, issuer estimate | 70% of the Sep 24, 2026 payment | |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| Benchmark | Dow Jones Industrial Average, measured through DIA | iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF, measured through IWD |
| Against its benchmark, same days | behind by 1.0 pts | behind by 9.4 pts |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.60% | 0.29% |
| Net assets, DJIA as of Oct 12, 2026 and PAPI as of Jun 30, 2026 | $191m | $400m |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 6% | |
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
Oct 27, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026 · 157 weekly returnsEach against its own benchmark: DJIA against DIA, Mar 4, 2022 to Oct 30, 2026; PAPI against IWD, Oct 27, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026.
From Oct 2023 to Oct 2026, PAPI returned slightly more: +46.8% to +44.8%. DJIA swung less: 8.9% to 10.8%. PAPI fell slightly less at its worst: −10.6% to −10.8%.
Full scorecard
19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | DJIA | PAPI | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | ||||
| Total return | +44.8% | +46.8% | PAPI (slight) | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. |
| Annualized | +13.0% | +13.6% | PAPI (slight) | Total return as a yearly rate. |
| Price return | +8.0% | +17.5% | PAPI | Price change alone, distributions left out. |
| Risk | ||||
| Volatility | 8.9% | 10.8% | DJIA | Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier. |
| Downside deviation | 6.3% | 7.7% | DJIA | Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate. |
| Max drawdown | −10.8% | −10.6% | PAPI (slight) | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. |
| Upside capture | 47.8% | 61.0% | Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose. | |
| Downside capture | 63.6% | 82.0% | Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better. | |
| Beta | 0.60 | 0.69 | Not an edge | How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves. |
| R squared | 0.74 | 0.60 | Not an edge | Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains. |
| Risk-adjusted | ||||
| Sharpe | 0.93 | 0.82 | DJIA | Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility. |
| Sortino | 1.31 | 1.16 | DJIA | Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation. |
| Treynor | 0.065 | 0.129 | Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta. | |
| Calmar | 1.21 | 1.28 | PAPI (slight) | Annualized return divided by the max drawdown. |
| Against the benchmark | ||||
| Benchmark | DIA | IWD | The ETF each fund is measured against. | |
| Alpha | −0.7% a year | −3.2% a year | Not significant | Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts. |
| Alpha t-stat | −0.31 | −0.80 | Not an edge | How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance. |
| Alpha range | −5.4% to +3.9% | −11.2% to +4.7% | Includes zero | The 95% range for the yearly alpha. |
| Information ratio | −0.50 | −1.11 | Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error. | |
| Tracking error | 7.8% | 7.8% | Not an edge | How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 157 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, DJIA and PAPI hold 6% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Jul 31, 2026.
half
6% 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 | DJIA | PAPI | DJIA | PAPI | DJIA | PAPI |
| 3 months | +1.4% | +6.6% | 1.7% | 1.8% | +2.8 pts | +2.6 pts |
| 6 months | +8.7% | +13.2% | 3.7% | 3.9% | +1.2 pts | −0.7 pts |
| 1 year | +13.9% | +23.4% | 10.1% | 8.2% | −1.0 pts | −9.4 pts |
| 3 years | +41.7% | +44.5% | 30.4% | 23.7% | −22.4 pts | −39.8 pts |
| Since launchNot the same days: DJIA Feb 2022 · PAPI Oct 2023 | +46.0% | +45.5% | 40.8% | 23.9% | −27.9 pts | −42.4 pts |
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DJIA
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, DJIA paid 10.1% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 2.9%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +13.9%. Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) returned +14.9% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 1.0 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 8.2%, paid monthly. Global X estimates that 70% of the distribution paid Sep 24, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
PAPI
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, PAPI paid 8.2% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 14.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +23.4%. iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD) returned +32.8% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 9.4 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 6.8%, paid monthly.
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