Data as of Nov 4, 2026.
NIHI vs VEGA: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, NIHI paid 10.8% of its price in cash against VEGA’s 1.3%, and returned more with it reinvested.
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Net assets: $215m on Oct 28, 2026 for NEOS MSCI EAFE High Income ETF, and $95m on Nov 4, 2026 for AdvisorShares STAR Global Buy-Write ETF.
2.3 pts behind IEFA
NIHI over 1 year: paid 10.8%, price +3.4%, total +14.7%, IEFA +17.0%, −2.3 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
IEFA
+17.0%
NIHI
+14.7%
10.8% of it arrived as cash
2.3 pts behind IEFA
Total return, distributions reinvested
2.3 pts behind IEFA
NIHI over 1 year: paid 10.8%, price +3.4%, total +14.7%, IEFA +17.0%, −2.3 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
IEFA
+17.0%
NIHI
+14.7%
10.8% cash
2.3 pts behind IEFA
10.8% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. NIHI over 1 year: paid 10.8%, price +3.4%, total +14.7%, IEFA +17.0%, −2.3 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Data to Nov 4, 2026.6.5 pts behind ACWI
VEGA over 1 year: paid 1.3%, price +7.1%, total +8.5%, ACWI +15.0%, −6.5 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
ACWI
+15.0%
VEGA
+8.5%
6.5 pts behind ACWI
Total return, distributions reinvested
6.5 pts behind ACWI
VEGA over 1 year: paid 1.3%, price +7.1%, total +8.5%, ACWI +15.0%, −6.5 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
ACWI
+15.0%
VEGA
+8.5%
6.5 pts behind ACWI
1.3% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, 0 to +17.0%. VEGA over 1 year: paid 1.3%, price +7.1%, total +8.5%, ACWI +15.0%, −6.5 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Both charts share one scale, 0 to +17.0%. Data to Nov 4, 2026.Pair scorecard
NIHI costs 0.55 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 6.2 points; NIHI is 2.3 times larger.
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Measure | NIHI | VEGA |
|---|---|---|
| Paid and earned | ||
| Total return, 1 year | +14.7% | +8.5% |
| Price change, 1 year | rose 3.4% | rose 7.1% |
| Return of capital, issuer estimate | 100% of the Oct 23, 2026 payment | |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| Benchmark | iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF, measured through IEFA | All-country world, measured through ACWI |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.68% | 1.23% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 28, 2026 | $215m | $94m |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 0% | |
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
Sep 26, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026 · 57 weekly returnsEach against its own benchmark: NIHI against IEFA, Sep 26, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026; VEGA against ACWI, Sep 28, 2012 to Oct 30, 2026.
From Sep 2025 to Oct 2026, NIHI returned more: +14.0% to +9.1%. VEGA swung less: 8.5% to 13.1%. VEGA fell less at its worst: −6.4% to −10.7%.
Full scorecard
19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | NIHI | VEGA | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | ||||
| Total return | +14.0% | +9.1% | NIHI | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. |
| Annualized | +12.7% | +8.3% | NIHI | Total return as a yearly rate. |
| Price return | +1.9% | +7.7% | VEGA | Price change alone, distributions left out. |
| Risk | ||||
| Volatility | 13.1% | 8.5% | VEGA | Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier. |
| Downside deviation | 9.6% | 5.5% | VEGA | Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate. |
| Max drawdown | −10.7% | −6.4% | VEGA | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. |
| Upside capture | 78.4% | 53.6% | Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose. | |
| Downside capture | 86.8% | 73.6% | Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better. | |
| Beta | 0.83 | 0.63 | Not an edge | How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves. |
| R squared | 0.81 | 0.81 | Not an edge | Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains. |
| Risk-adjusted | ||||
| Sharpe | 0.69 | 0.53 | NIHI | Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility. |
| Sortino | 0.94 | 0.83 | NIHI | Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation. |
| Treynor | 0.109 | 0.073 | Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta. | |
| Calmar | 1.19 | 1.30 | VEGA (slight) | Annualized return divided by the max drawdown. |
| Against the benchmark | ||||
| Benchmark | IEFA | ACWI | The ETF each fund is measured against. | |
| Alpha | +0.6% a year | −1.6% a year | Not significant | Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts. |
| Alpha t-stat | 0.10 | −1.29 | Not an edge | How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance. |
| Alpha range | −10.6% to +11.8% | −4.1% to +0.8% | Includes zero | The 95% range for the yearly alpha. |
| Information ratio | −0.18 | −0.71 | Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error. | |
| Tracking error | 6.2% | 7.3% | Not an edge | How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 57 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, NIHI and VEGA hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026.
half
0% 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 | NIHI | VEGA | NIHI | VEGA | NIHI | VEGA |
| 3 months | −0.6% | −0.8% | 2.4% | 0.0% | +1.0 pts | +0.4 pts |
| 6 months | +4.0% | +1.2% | 4.9% | 0.0% | +1.8 pts | −1.5 pts |
| 1 year | +14.7% | +8.5% | 10.8% | 1.3% | −2.2 pts | −6.5 pts |
| 3 years | – | +49.4% | – | 4.2% | – | −28.2 pts |
| Since launchNot the same days: NIHI Sep 2025 · VEGA Sep 2012 | +15.7% | +129.6% | 12.3% | 12.9% | −1.5 pts | −207.4 pts |
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No client brief for this pair: the two funds' holdings are dated 126 days apart.
NIHI
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, NIHI paid 10.8% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 3.4%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +14.7%. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) returned +17.0% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 2.3 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 10.1%, paid monthly. NEOS estimates that 100% of the distribution paid Oct 23, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
VEGA
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, VEGA paid 1.3% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 7.1%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +8.5%. All-country world (ACWI) returned +15.0% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 6.5 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 1.3%, paid annually.
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Every number is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.
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