Data as of Nov 4, 2026.
PLTW vs PLTY: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, PLTY paid 39.1% of its price in cash against PLTW’s 33.6%, and returned more with it reinvested.
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Net assets: $113m on Nov 4, 2026 for Roundhill PLTR WeeklyPay ETF, and $339m on Nov 3, 2026 for YieldMax PLTR Option Income Strategy ETF.
10.7 pts behind PLTR
PLTW over 1 year: paid 33.6%, price −54.8%, total −20.7%, PLTR −10.0%, −10.7 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
PLTR
−10.0%
PLTW
−20.7%
10.7 pts behind PLTR
Total return, distributions reinvested
10.7 pts behind PLTR
PLTW over 1 year: paid 33.6%, price −54.8%, total −20.7%, PLTR −10.0%, −10.7 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
PLTR
−10.0%
PLTW
−20.7%
10.7 pts behind PLTR
33.6% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. PLTW over 1 year: paid 33.6%, price −54.8%, total −20.7%, PLTR −10.0%, −10.7 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Data to Nov 4, 2026.3 pts ahead of PLTR
PLTY over 1 year: paid 39.1%, price −49.3%, total −7.0%, PLTR −10.0%, +3.0 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
PLTR
−10.0%
PLTY
−7.0%
3 pts ahead of PLTR
Total return, distributions reinvested
3 pts ahead of PLTR
PLTY over 1 year: paid 39.1%, price −49.3%, total −7.0%, PLTR −10.0%, +3.0 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
PLTR
−10.0%
PLTY
−7.0%
3 pts ahead of PLTR
39.1% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, with zero at the line. PLTY over 1 year: paid 39.1%, price −49.3%, total −7.0%, PLTR −10.0%, +3.0 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.
Data to Nov 4, 2026.Pair scorecard
PLTW costs 0.08 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 13.7 points; PLTY is 2.9 times larger.
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Measure | PLTW | PLTY |
|---|---|---|
| Paid and earned | ||
| Total return, 1 year | −20.7% | −7.0% |
| Price change, 1 year | fell 54.8% | fell 49.3% |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| Benchmark | Palantir (PLTR) | Palantir (PLTR) |
| Against its benchmark, same days | behind by 10.7 pts | ahead by 3.0 pts |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.99% | 1.07% |
| Net assets, as of Nov 3, 2026 | $116m | $339m |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 0% | |
How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 77 income ETFs 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
Feb 28, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026 · 87 weekly returns · each against PLTRFrom Feb 2025 to Oct 2026, PLTW returned more: +112.7% to +82.7%. PLTY swung less: 52.5% to 76.8%. PLTY fell less at its worst: −36.6% to −53.0%.
Full scorecard
19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | PLTW | PLTY | PLTR | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | |||||
| Total return | +112.7% | +82.7% | PLTW | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. | |
| Annualized | +57.0% | +43.4% | PLTW | Total return as a yearly rate. | |
| Price return | −26.9% | −44.8% | PLTW | Price change alone, distributions left out. | |
| Risk | |||||
| Volatility | 76.8% | 52.5% | PLTY | Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier. | |
| Downside deviation | 42.5% | 30.3% | PLTY | Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate. | |
| Max drawdown | −53.0% | −36.6% | PLTY | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. | |
| Upside capture | 187.4% | 46.6% | 100.0% | PLTW | Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose. |
| Downside capture | 102.6% | 96.0% | 100.0% | PLTY (slight) | Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better. |
| Beta | 1.19 | 0.81 | 1.00 | PLTY lower | How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves. |
| R squared | 1.00 | 0.98 | 1.00 | Not an edge | Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains. |
| Risk-adjusted | |||||
| Sharpe | 0.90 | 0.86 | PLTW (slight) | Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility. | |
| Sortino | 1.62 | 1.49 | PLTW (slight) | Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation. | |
| Treynor | 0.576 | 0.559 | 0.617 | PLTW (slight) | Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta. |
| Calmar | 1.08 | 1.18 | PLTY (slight) | Annualized return divided by the max drawdown. | |
| Against the benchmark | |||||
| Benchmark | PLTR | PLTR | PLTR | The ETF each fund is measured against. | |
| Alpha | −5.0% a year | −4.7% a year | 0.0% | Not significant | Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts. |
| Alpha t-stat | −1.61 | −0.75 | Not an edge | How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance. | |
| Alpha range | −11.1% to +1.2% | −17.2% to +7.8% | Both include zero | The 95% range for the yearly alpha. | |
| Information ratio | 0.54 | −1.13 | PLTW | Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error. | |
| Tracking error | 13.1% | 14.7% | 0.0% | Not an edge | How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 87 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, PLTW and PLTY hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Nov 4, 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 | PLTW | PLTY | PLTW | PLTY | PLTW | PLTY |
| 3 months | +7.6% | +3.6% | 15.8% | 15.6% | −0.8 pts | −4.8 pts |
| 6 months | +27.5% | +24.4% | 28.4% | 28.8% | −0.8 pts | −3.9 pts |
| 1 year | −20.7% | −7.0% | 33.6% | 39.1% | −10.8 pts | +3.0 pts |
| Since launchNot the same days: PLTW Feb 2025 · PLTY Oct 2024 | +39.2% | +169.4% | 86.3% | 158.5% | −14.0 pts | −144.8 pts |
No client brief for this pair: the two funds' holdings are dated 127 days apart.
PLTW
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, PLTW paid 33.6% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price fell 54.8%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned −20.7%. Palantir (PLTR) returned −10.0% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 10.7 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 85.9%, paid weekly. Roundhill estimates that 100% of the distribution paid Nov 3, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
PLTY
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, PLTY paid 39.1% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price fell 49.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned −7.0%. Palantir (PLTR) returned −10.0% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 3.0 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 46.5%, paid weekly. YieldMax estimates that 94% of the distribution paid Oct 30, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice).
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Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.
Every number is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.
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