Data as of Nov 4, 2026.
GPIQ vs YLDE: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, GPIQ paid 10.9% of its price in cash against YLDE’s 7.9%, though YLDE returned more with it reinvested.
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Net assets on Nov 3, 2026: $6.4bn for Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premium Income ETF and $186m for Franklin ClearBridge Enhanced Income ETF.
0.7 pts ahead of QQQ
GPIQ over 1 year: paid 10.9%, price +1.7%, total +13.0%, QQQ +12.3%, +0.7 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
QQQ
+12.3%
GPIQ
+13.0%
10.9% of it arrived as cash
0.7 pts ahead of QQQ
Total return, distributions reinvested
0.7 pts ahead of QQQ
GPIQ over 1 year: paid 10.9%, price +1.7%, total +13.0%, QQQ +12.3%, +0.7 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
QQQ
+12.3%
GPIQ
+13.0%
10.9% cash
0.7 pts ahead of QQQ
10.9% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. GPIQ over 1 year: paid 10.9%, price +1.7%, total +13.0%, QQQ +12.3%, +0.7 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Data to Nov 4, 2026.4.2 pts ahead of IWV
YLDE over 1 year: paid 7.9%, price +10.5%, total +19.0%, IWV +14.8%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
IWV
+14.8%
YLDE
+19.0%
7.9% of it arrived as cash
4.2 pts ahead of IWV
Total return, distributions reinvested
4.2 pts ahead of IWV
YLDE over 1 year: paid 7.9%, price +10.5%, total +19.0%, IWV +14.8%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
IWV
+14.8%
YLDE
+19.0%
4.2 pts ahead of IWV
7.9% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, 0 to +19.0%. YLDE over 1 year: paid 7.9%, price +10.5%, total +19.0%, IWV +14.8%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Both charts share one scale, 0 to +19.0%. Data to Nov 4, 2026.Pair scorecard
GPIQ costs 0.19 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 6.0 points; GPIQ is far larger, $6.4bn against $186m.
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Measure | GPIQ | YLDE |
|---|---|---|
| Paid and earned | ||
| Total return, 1 year | +13.0% | +19.0% |
| Price change, 1 year | rose 1.7% | rose 10.5% |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| Benchmark | Nasdaq-100, measured through QQQ | iShares Russell 3000 ETF, measured through IWV |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.29% | 0.48% |
| Net assets, as of Nov 3, 2026 | $6.4bn | $186m |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 20% | |
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
Nov 3, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026 · 156 weekly returnsEach against its own benchmark: GPIQ against QQQ, Nov 3, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026; YLDE against IWV, Jun 2, 2017 to Oct 30, 2026.
From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, GPIQ returned more: +79.5% to +58.5%. YLDE swung less: 10.3% to 16.5%. YLDE fell less at its worst: −9.9% to −19.5%.
Full scorecard
19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | GPIQ | YLDE | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | ||||
| Total return | +79.5% | +58.5% | GPIQ | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. |
| Annualized | +21.5% | +16.6% | GPIQ | Total return as a yearly rate. |
| Price return | +32.1% | +38.6% | YLDE | Price change alone, distributions left out. |
| Risk | ||||
| Volatility | 16.5% | 10.3% | YLDE | Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier. |
| Downside deviation | 11.0% | 6.9% | YLDE | Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate. |
| Max drawdown | −19.5% | −9.9% | YLDE | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. |
| Upside capture | 76.7% | 61.1% | Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose. | |
| Downside capture | 88.7% | 75.6% | Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better. | |
| Beta | 0.85 | 0.76 | Not an edge | How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves. |
| R squared | 0.99 | 0.79 | Not an edge | Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains. |
| Risk-adjusted | ||||
| Sharpe | 1.00 | 1.12 | YLDE | Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility. |
| Sortino | 1.50 | 1.67 | YLDE | Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation. |
| Treynor | 0.194 | 0.128 | Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta. | |
| Calmar | 1.10 | 1.67 | YLDE | Annualized return divided by the max drawdown. |
| Against the benchmark | ||||
| Benchmark | QQQ | IWV | The ETF each fund is measured against. | |
| Alpha | +0.3% a year | +0.7% a year | Not significant | Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts. |
| Alpha t-stat | 0.29 | 0.29 | Not an edge | How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance. |
| Alpha range | −1.7% to +2.3% | −3.9% to +5.2% | Includes zero | The 95% range for the yearly alpha. |
| Information ratio | −0.75 | −0.27 | Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error. | |
| Tracking error | 3.4% | 8.3% | Not an edge | How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 156 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, GPIQ and YLDE hold 20% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026.
half
20% 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 | GPIQ | YLDE | GPIQ | YLDE | GPIQ | YLDE |
| 3 months | −2.6% | +3.2% | 2.6% | 1.6% | +0.8 pts | +3.6 pts |
| 6 months | +0.5% | +8.6% | 5.3% | 4.0% | +0.9 pts | +3.7 pts |
| 1 year | +13.0% | +19.0% | 10.9% | 7.9% | +0.7 pts | +4.2 pts |
| 3 years | +80.0% | +61.5% | 38.3% | 18.0% | −11.4 pts | −19.5 pts |
| Since launchNot the same days: GPIQ Oct 2023 · YLDE May 2017 | +91.4% | +197.5% | 40.7% | 44.5% | −13.4 pts | −52.9 pts |
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GPIQ
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, GPIQ paid 10.9% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 1.7%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +13.0%. Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) returned +12.3% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 0.7 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 10.5%, paid monthly.
YLDE
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, YLDE paid 7.9% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 10.5%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +19.0%. iShares Russell 3000 ETF (IWV) returned +14.8% 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 6.3%, paid monthly. Franklin estimates that 67% of the distribution paid Apr 6, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
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