Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
GPIQ vs SDTY: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, SDTY paid 24.6% of its price in cash against GPIQ’s 10.6%, though GPIQ returned more with it reinvested.
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Net assets on Oct 27, 2026: $6.5bn for Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premium Income ETF and $41m for YieldMax S&P 500 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF.
0.9 pts ahead of QQQ
GPIQ over 1 year: paid 10.6%, price +4.5%, total +16.1%, QQQ +15.2%, +0.9 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.
QQQ
+15.2%
GPIQ
+16.1%
10.6% of it arrived as cash
0.9 pts ahead of QQQ
Total return, distributions reinvested
0.9 pts ahead of QQQ
GPIQ over 1 year: paid 10.6%, price +4.5%, total +16.1%, QQQ +15.2%, +0.9 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.
QQQ
+15.2%
GPIQ
+16.1%
10.6% cash
0.9 pts ahead of QQQ
10.6% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. GPIQ over 1 year: paid 10.6%, price +4.5%, total +16.1%, QQQ +15.2%, +0.9 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.
Data to Oct 28, 2026.About even with VOO
SDTY over 1 year: paid 24.6%, price −13.3%, total +13.4%, VOO +13.7%, −0.3 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.
VOO
+13.7%
SDTY
+13.4%
24.6% of it arrived as cash
about even with VOO
Total return, distributions reinvested
About even with VOO
SDTY over 1 year: paid 24.6%, price −13.3%, total +13.4%, VOO +13.7%, −0.3 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.
VOO
+13.7%
SDTY
+13.4%
24.6% as cash
about even with VOO
24.6% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, with zero at the line. SDTY over 1 year: paid 24.6%, price −13.3%, total +13.4%, VOO +13.7%, −0.3 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.
Data to Oct 28, 2026.Pair scorecard
GPIQ costs 0.79 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.7 points; GPIQ is far larger, $6.5bn against $41m.
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Measure | GPIQ | SDTY |
|---|---|---|
| Paid and earned | ||
| Total return, 1 year | +16.1% | +13.4% |
| Price change, 1 year | rose 4.5% | fell 13.3% |
| Return of capital, issuer estimate | 58% of the Oct 29, 2026 payment | |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| Benchmark | Nasdaq-100, measured through QQQ | Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, measured through VOO |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.29% | 1.08% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 27, 2026 | $6.5bn | $41m |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 0% | |
How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 164 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 100 is best. How it is computed
A percentile among the 164 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 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 →
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026. Method
Risk and return
Feb 14, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026 · 88 weekly returnsEach against its own benchmark: GPIQ against QQQ, Nov 3, 2023 to Oct 23, 2026; SDTY against VOO, Feb 14, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026.
GPIQ returned more: +29.9% to +21.6%. SDTY swung less: 13.9% to 18.0%. SDTY fell less at its worst: −17.2% to −19.5%.
Full scorecard
19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | GPIQ | SDTY | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | ||||
| Total return | +29.9% | +21.6% | GPIQ | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. |
| Annualized | +16.7% | +12.2% | GPIQ | Total return as a yearly rate. |
| Price return | +9.0% | −21.0% | GPIQ | Price change alone, distributions left out. |
| Risk | ||||
| Volatility | 18.0% | 13.9% | SDTY | Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier. |
| Downside deviation | 12.1% | 10.4% | SDTY | Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate. |
| Max drawdown | −19.5% | −17.2% | SDTY | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. |
| Upside capture | 76.7% | 79.6% | Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose. | |
| Downside capture | 88.7% | 91.0% | Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better. | |
| Beta | 0.85 | 0.87 | Not an edge | How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves. |
| R squared | 0.99 | 0.92 | Not an edge | Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains. |
| Risk-adjusted | ||||
| Sharpe | 0.73 | 0.62 | GPIQ | Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility. |
| Sortino | 1.09 | 0.82 | GPIQ | Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation. |
| Treynor | 0.202 | 0.098 | Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta. | |
| Calmar | 0.86 | 0.71 | GPIQ | Annualized return divided by the max drawdown. |
| Against the benchmark | ||||
| Benchmark | QQQ | VOO | The ETF each fund is measured against. | |
| Alpha | +0.3% a year | −1.4% a year | Not significant | Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts. |
| Alpha t-stat | 0.29 | −0.47 | Not an edge | How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance. |
| Alpha range | −1.7% to +2.3% | −7.6% to +4.7% | Includes zero | The 95% range for the yearly alpha. |
| Information ratio | −0.79 | −0.65 | Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error. | |
| Tracking error | 3.4% | 4.4% | Not an edge | How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 88 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, GPIQ and SDTY hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026.
half
0% in common
Only in one fund ↓
Side by side
As of Oct 28, 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 | GPIQ | SDTY | GPIQ | SDTY | GPIQ | SDTY |
| 3 months | +9.1% | +5.8% | 2.8% | 5.7% | −0.7 pts | −0.3 pts |
| 6 months | +9.1% | +9.7% | 5.5% | 12.1% | −0.8 pts | +0.6 pts |
| 1 year | +16.1% | +13.4% | 10.6% | 24.6% | +0.9 pts | −0.3 pts |
| 3 years | +99.1% | – | 39.4% | – | −14.6 pts | – |
| Since launchNot the same days: GPIQ Oct 2023 · SDTY Feb 2025 | +99.7% | +23.9% | 39.5% | 37.5% | −15.0 pts | −6.1 pts |
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GPIQ
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, GPIQ paid 10.6% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 4.5%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +16.1%. Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) returned +15.2% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 0.9 pts. At its price on Oct 28, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 10.7%, paid monthly.
SDTY
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, SDTY paid 24.6% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price fell 13.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +13.4%. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) returned +13.7% over the same days, so a holder was about even. At its price on Oct 28, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 23.3%, paid weekly. YieldMax estimates that 58% of the distribution paid Oct 29, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
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Every number is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.
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