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OVLH vs PAPI: Dividend Yield & Total Return

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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, PAPI paid 8.2% of its price in cash against OVLH’s 0.3%, and returned more with it reinvested.

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Net assets: $109m on Aug 31, 2026 for Overlay Shares Hedged Large Cap Equity ETF, and $400m on Jun 30, 2026 for Parametric Equity Premium Income ETF.

At a glance
0.3%
OVLH cash paid, 1 year
8.2%
PAPI cash paid, 1 year
+7.0%
OVLH total return, 1 year
+23.4%
PAPI total return, 1 year
OVLH · 1 year to Nov 4, 2026 7.8 pts behind VOO
OVLH
+7.0%
VOO
+14.8%

7.8 pts behind VOO

OVLH over 1 year: paid 0.3%, price +6.7%, total +7.0%, VOO +14.8%, −7.8 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

VOO

+14.8%

OVLH

+7.0%

7.8 pts behind VOO

Total return, distributions reinvested

7.8 pts behind VOO

OVLH over 1 year: paid 0.3%, price +6.7%, total +7.0%, VOO +14.8%, −7.8 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

VOO

+14.8%

OVLH

+7.0%

7.8 pts behind VOO

0.3% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. OVLH over 1 year: paid 0.3%, price +6.7%, total +7.0%, VOO +14.8%, −7.8 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

Data to Nov 4, 2026.
PAPI · 1 year to Nov 4, 2026 9.4 pts behind IWD
PAPI
+23.4%
IWD
+32.8%

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 0.51 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 16.4 points.

Points (pts) are percentage points.

OVLH vs PAPI: Dividend Yield & Total Return
MeasureOVLHPAPI
Paid and earned
Total return, 1 year+7.0%+23.4%
Price change, 1 yearrose 6.7%rose 14.3%
Return of capital, issuer estimate38% of the Dec 29, 2023 payment
Against its benchmark
BenchmarkVanguard S&P 500 ETF, measured through VOOiShares Russell 1000 Value ETF, measured through IWD
Cost and size
Expense ratio0.80%0.29%
Net assets, OVLH as of Aug 31, 2026 and PAPI as of Jun 30, 2026$109m$400m
Holdings
Holdings in common0%
ETFIQ Distribution Coverage Score · OVLH scores higher How much of what it paid out did its total return cover?
IQ Income Score99.7OVLH96.1PAPI

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

0.3, the lowest in this set 99.7, the highest

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 →

Method

Risk and return

Oct 27, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026 · 157 weekly returns
OVLH PAPI
Return
Total return edge OVLH +64.4% +46.8%
Annualized edge OVLH +17.9% +13.6%
Price return edge OVLH +62.1% +17.5%
Risk
Volatility edge OVLH 9.3% 10.8%
Max drawdown edge OVLH −8.0% −10.6%
Downside capture 79.7% 82.0%
Beta 0.67 0.69
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe edge OVLH 1.34 0.82
Sortino edge OVLH 2.39 1.16
Treynor 0.094 0.129
Calmar edge OVLH 2.24 1.28
Against the benchmark
Alpha −1.0% a year −3.2% a year
Alpha t-stat −0.85 −0.80
Information ratio −0.78 −1.11
Tracking error 6.0% 7.8%

Each against its own benchmark: OVLH against VOO, Jan 22, 2021 to Oct 30, 2026; PAPI against IWD, Oct 27, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026.

Reading

From Oct 2023 to Oct 2026, OVLH returned more: +64.4% to +46.8%. OVLH swung less: 9.3% to 10.8%. OVLH fell less at its worst: −8.0% to −10.6%.

Full scorecard

19 measures, with how each is measured
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Risk and return: OVLH vs PAPI: Dividend Yield & Total Return
MeasureOVLHPAPIEdgeHow it is measured
Return
Total return+64.4%+46.8%OVLHPrice change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized+17.9%+13.6%OVLHTotal return as a yearly rate.
Price return+62.1%+17.5%OVLHPrice change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility9.3%10.8%OVLHSpread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation5.2%7.7%OVLHLike volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown−8.0%−10.6%OVLHDeepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Upside capture61.5%61.0%Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose.
Downside capture79.7%82.0%Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better.
Beta0.670.69Not an edgeHow far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves.
R squared0.930.60Not an edgeShare of its weekly moves its benchmark explains.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe1.340.82OVLHReturn above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino2.391.16OVLHReturn above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Treynor0.0940.129Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta.
Calmar2.241.28OVLHAnnualized return divided by the max drawdown.
Against the benchmark
BenchmarkVOOIWDThe ETF each fund is measured against.
Alpha−1.0% a year−3.2% a yearNot significantYearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts.
Alpha t-stat−0.85−0.80Not an edgeHow sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance.
Alpha range−3.5% to +1.4%−11.2% to +4.7%Includes zeroThe 95% range for the yearly alpha.
Information ratio−0.78−1.11Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error.
Tracking error6.0%7.8%Not an edgeHow 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

0%

By the books each fund has filed, OVLH and PAPI hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026.

0 half 100%

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0% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first OVLH PAPI
Only in one fund ↓
Only in OVLH
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 97.79%
Only in PAPI
Corning, Inc. 1.00%
TD SYNNEX Corp. 0.80%
Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.76%
Power Integrations, Inc. 0.73%
Royalty Pharma plc 0.72%
Millicom International Cellular SA 0.72%
Avnet, Inc. 0.70%
Texas Instruments, Inc. 0.70%
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Side by side

OVLH Overlay Shares Hedged Large Cap Equity ETF · Put-selling overlay, hedged on VOO, paying annually PAPI Parametric Equity Premium Income ETF · Writes options on the S&P 500, measured against the Russell 1000 Value Index, paying monthly
Strategy put-selling overlay, hedged covered call
Benchmark Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD)
Pays annual monthly
Payout rate, annualized 0.3% 6.8%
Expense ratio 0.80% 0.29%
Cash paid, 1 year 0.3% 8.2%
Price change, 1 year +6.7% +14.3%
Total return, 1 year +7.0% +23.4%
Benchmark return, 1 year +14.8% +32.8%
Ahead or behind −7.8 pts −9.4 pts
Return of capital, latest estimate 38% not published
Age 5.8 years 3.0 years
Net assets, OVLH as of Aug 31, 2026 and PAPI as of Jun 30, 2026 $109m $400m

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

Window by window: OVLH vs PAPI: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Total returnCash paidAgainst the benchmark
WindowOVLHPAPIOVLHPAPIOVLHPAPI
3 months−1.4%+6.6%0.0%1.8%−1.3 pts+2.6 pts
6 months+1.6%+13.2%0.0%3.9%−3.5 pts−0.7 pts
1 year+7.0%+23.4%0.3%8.2%−7.8 pts−9.4 pts
3 years+58.6%+44.5%1.7%23.7%−24.8 pts−39.8 pts
Since launchNot the same days: OVLH Jan 2021 · PAPI Oct 2023+73.9%+45.5%3.2%23.9%−47.2 pts−42.4 pts

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About each fund
OVLH

Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, OVLH paid 0.3% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 6.7%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +7.0%. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) returned +14.8% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 7.8 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 0.3%, paid annually. Overlay Shares estimates that 38% of the distribution paid Dec 29, 2023 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.

Questions people ask

Which paid more, OVLH or PAPI?
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, OVLH paid 0.3% of its starting price in cash and PAPI paid 8.2%, so PAPI paid more. Cash paid is not the same as money made: the price change matters too.
Which returned more once distributions are counted, OVLH or PAPI?
With every distribution reinvested, OVLH returned +7.0% and PAPI +23.4% over the year to Nov 4, 2026.
Which is cheaper, OVLH or PAPI?
OVLH charges 0.80% a year and PAPI charges 0.29%, so PAPI is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Every number is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.

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