Which paid more, QYLD or SDVD?

Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, QYLD paid 12.3% of its starting price in cash and SDVD paid 9.7%, so QYLD paid more. Cash paid is not the same as money made: the price change matters too.

Which returned more once distributions are counted, QYLD or SDVD?

With every distribution reinvested, QYLD returned +16.5% and SDVD +18.9% over the year to Nov 4, 2026.

Which is cheaper, QYLD or SDVD?

QYLD charges 0.60% a year and SDVD charges 0.85%, so QYLD is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Income ETFs

QYLD vs SDVD: Dividend Yield & Total Return

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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, QYLD paid 12.3% of its price in cash against SDVD’s 9.7%, though SDVD returned more with it reinvested.

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Net assets: $8.5bn on Oct 12, 2026 for Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF, and $903m on Nov 3, 2026 for FT Vest SMID Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF.

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At a glance

12.3%

QYLD cash paid, 1 year

9.7%

SDVD cash paid, 1 year

+16.5%

QYLD total return, 1 year

+18.9%

SDVD total return, 1 year

QYLD · 1 year to Nov 4, 2026 4.2 pts ahead of QQQ

QYLD

+16.5%

QQQ

+12.3%

4.2 pts ahead of QQQ

QYLD over 1 year: paid 12.3%, price +3.3%, total +16.5%, QQQ +12.3%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

QQQ

+12.3%

QYLD

+16.5%

12.3% of it arrived as cash

4.2 pts ahead of QQQ

Total return, distributions reinvested

4.2 pts ahead of QQQ

QYLD over 1 year: paid 12.3%, price +3.3%, total +16.5%, QQQ +12.3%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

QQQ

+12.3%

QYLD

+16.5%

12.3% cash

4.2 pts ahead of QQQ

12.3% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. QYLD over 1 year: paid 12.3%, price +3.3%, total +16.5%, QQQ +12.3%, +4.2 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

Data to Nov 4, 2026.

SDVD · 1 year to Nov 4, 2026 1.4 pts ahead of SDVY

SDVD

+18.9%

SDVY

+17.5%

1.4 pts ahead of SDVY

SDVD over 1 year: paid 9.7%, price +8.6%, total +18.9%, SDVY +17.5%, +1.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

SDVY

+17.5%

SDVD

+18.9%

9.7% of it arrived as cash

1.4 pts ahead of SDVY

Total return, distributions reinvested

1.4 pts ahead of SDVY

SDVD over 1 year: paid 9.7%, price +8.6%, total +18.9%, SDVY +17.5%, +1.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

SDVY

+17.5%

SDVD

+18.9%

9.7% cash

1.4 pts ahead of SDVY

9.7% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, 0 to +18.9%. SDVD over 1 year: paid 9.7%, price +8.6%, total +18.9%, SDVY +17.5%, +1.4 pts. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

Both charts share one scale, 0 to +18.9%. Data to Nov 4, 2026.

Pair scorecard

QYLD costs 0.25 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.4 points; QYLD is 9.7 times larger.

Points (pts) are percentage points.

QYLD vs SDVD: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Measure	QYLD	SDVD
Paid and earned
Measure	QYLD	SDVD
Total return, 1 year	+16.5%	+18.9%
Price change, 1 year	rose 3.3%	rose 8.6%
Return of capital, issuer estimate	99% of the Sep 24, 2026 payment	22% of the Oct 30, 2026 payment
Against its benchmark
Measure	QYLD	SDVD
Benchmark	Nasdaq-100, measured through QQQ	First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF, measured through SDVY
Cost and size
Measure	QYLD	SDVD
Expense ratio	0.60%	0.85%
Net assets, as of Oct 12, 2026	$8.5bn	$879m
Holdings
Measure	QYLD	SDVD
Holdings in common	0%

ETFIQ Distribution Coverage Score · SDVD scores higher How much of what it paid out did its total return cover?

IQ Income Score72.8QYLD84.7SDVD

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

QYLD 72.8

SDVD 84.7

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

Aug 18, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026 · 167 weekly returns

QYLD SDVD

Return

Total return edge Tie +53.5% +53.5%

Annualized edge Tie +14.3% +14.3%

Price return edge SDVD +3.4% +15.0%

Risk

Volatility edge QYLD 11.7% 16.9%

Max drawdown edge QYLD −17.5% −22.2%

Downside capture 64.8% 95.9%

Beta 0.55 0.94

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge QYLD 0.82 0.61

Sortino edge QYLD 1.17 0.89

Treynor 0.127 0.109

Calmar edge QYLD 0.82 0.64

Against the benchmark

Alpha −2.3% a year +0.8% a year

Alpha t-stat −1.37 0.75

Information ratio −0.93 0.10

Tracking error 10.6% 2.1%

Each against its own benchmark: QYLD against QQQ, Dec 20, 2013 to Oct 30, 2026; SDVD against SDVY, Aug 18, 2023 to Oct 30, 2026.

Reading

From Aug 2023 to Oct 2026, QYLD and SDVD returned about the same: +53.5% and +53.5%. QYLD swung less: 11.7% to 16.9%. QYLD fell less at its worst: −17.5% to −22.2%.

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Risk and return: QYLD vs SDVD: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Measure	QYLD	SDVD	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+53.5%	+53.5%	Tie	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+14.3%	+14.3%	Tie	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	+3.4%	+15.0%	SDVD	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	11.7%	16.9%	QYLD	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	8.1%	11.6%	QYLD	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−17.5%	−22.2%	QYLD	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Upside capture	37.8%	93.3%		Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose.
Downside capture	64.8%	95.9%		Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better.
Beta	0.55	0.94	Not an edge	How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves.
R squared	0.77	0.99	Not an edge	Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	0.82	0.61	QYLD	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	1.17	0.89	QYLD	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Treynor	0.127	0.109		Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta.
Calmar	0.82	0.64	QYLD	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.
Against the benchmark
Benchmark	QQQ	SDVY		The ETF each fund is measured against.
Alpha	−2.3% a year	+0.8% a year	Not significant	Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts.
Alpha t-stat	−1.37	0.75	Not an edge	How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance.
Alpha range	−5.5% to +1.0%	−1.3% to +2.9%	Includes zero	The 95% range for the yearly alpha.
Information ratio	−0.93	0.10		Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error.
Tracking error	10.6%	2.1%	Not an edge	How far weekly returns stray from the benchmark, annualized.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 167 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

What they share

By the books each fund has filed, QYLD and SDVD hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026.

50%

0 half 100%

half

0% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first QYLD SDVD

Only in one fund ↓

Only in QYLD

NVIDIA CORPORATION 8.20%

APPLE INC. 7.65%

MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.82%

AMAZON.COM, INC. 4.93%

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 4.32%

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 3.62%

ALPHABET INC. 3.50%

ALPHABET INC. 3.28%

Only in SDVD

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. 1.09%

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated 1.06%

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 1.06%

Veralto Corporation 1.05%

Assurant, Inc. 1.02%

Interparfums, Inc. 1.02%

National HealthCare Corporation 1.02%

VeriSign, Inc. 1.02%

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Side by side

QYLD Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF · Covered call on QQQ, paying monthly SDVD FT Vest SMID Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF · Writes calls on the Russell 2000, investing in the Nasdaq US Small-Mid Cap Rising Dividend Achievers Index, paying monthly

Issuer Global X First Trust

Strategy covered call dividend stocks with call overlay

Benchmark Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (SDVY)

Pays monthly monthly

Payout rate, annualized 12.2% 8.2%

Expense ratio 0.60% 0.85%

Cash paid, 1 year 12.3% 9.7%

Price change, 1 year +3.3% +8.6%

Total return, 1 year +16.5% +18.9%

Benchmark return, 1 year +12.3% +17.5%

Ahead or behind +4.2 pts +1.4 pts

Return of capital, latest estimate 99% 22%

Age 12.9 years 3.2 years

Net assets, QYLD as of Oct 12, 2026 and SDVD as of Nov 3, 2026 $8.5bn $903m

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: QYLD vs SDVD: Dividend Yield & Total Return
	Total return		Cash paid		Against the benchmark
Window	QYLD	SDVD	QYLD	SDVD	QYLD	SDVD
3 months	+2.4%	−2.3%	3.0%	2.0%	+5.9 pts	+0.5 pts
6 months	+5.4%	+3.3%	6.0%	4.1%	+5.8 pts	+0.9 pts
1 year	+16.5%	+18.9%	12.3%	9.7%	+4.2 pts	+1.4 pts
3 years	+52.7%	+60.8%	37.9%	31.3%	−38.6 pts	+1.0 pts
Since launchNot the same days: QYLD Dec 2013 · SDVD Aug 2023	+194.8%	+53.9%	117.5%	31.3%	−610.5 pts	+1.9 pts

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About each fund

QYLD

Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, QYLD paid 12.3% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 3.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +16.5%. Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) returned +12.3% 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 12.2%, paid monthly. Global X estimates that 99% of the distribution paid Sep 24, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.

SDVD

Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, SDVD paid 9.7% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 8.6%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +18.9%. First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (SDVY) returned +17.5% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 1.4 pts. At its price on Nov 4, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 8.2%, paid monthly. First Trust estimates that 22% of the distribution paid Oct 30, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice).

Questions people ask

Which paid more, QYLD or SDVD?: Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, QYLD paid 12.3% of its starting price in cash and SDVD paid 9.7%, so QYLD paid more. Cash paid is not the same as money made: the price change matters too.
Which returned more once distributions are counted, QYLD or SDVD?: With every distribution reinvested, QYLD returned +16.5% and SDVD +18.9% over the year to Nov 4, 2026.
Which is cheaper, QYLD or SDVD?: QYLD charges 0.60% a year and SDVD charges 0.85%, so QYLD is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where to next

Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) →First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (SDVY) →QYLD on its own →SDVD on its own →QYLD dividend history →QYLD holdings →SDVD dividend history →SDVD holdings →Method →Standards and sources →

Sources and dates

QYLD filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

QYLD prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

QYLD 19a-1 distribution notice ↗

Global X page for QYLD ↗

SDVD filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

SDVD prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

SDVD 19a-1 distribution notice ↗

First Trust page for SDVD ↗

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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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