Which paid more, XDTE or XYLD?

Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, XDTE paid 25.5% of its starting price in cash and XYLD paid 10.6%, so XDTE paid more. Cash paid is not the same as money made: the price change matters too.

Which returned more once distributions are counted, XDTE or XYLD?

With every distribution reinvested, XDTE returned +13.6% and XYLD +15.8% over the year to Oct 28, 2026.

Which is cheaper, XDTE or XYLD?

XDTE charges 0.97% a year and XYLD charges 0.60%, so XYLD is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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XDTE vs XYLD: Dividend Yield & Total Return

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, XDTE paid 25.5% of its price in cash against XYLD’s 10.6%, though XYLD returned more with it reinvested.

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Net assets: $322m on Oct 28, 2026 for Roundhill S&P 500 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF, and $3.4bn on Oct 12, 2026 for Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF.

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At a glance

25.5%

XDTE cash paid, 1 year

10.6%

XYLD cash paid, 1 year

+13.6%

XDTE total return, 1 year

+15.8%

XYLD total return, 1 year

XDTE · 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 About even with SPY

XDTE

+13.6%

SPY

+13.6%

About even with SPY

XDTE over 1 year: paid 25.5%, price −14.3%, total +13.6%, SPY +13.6%, 0.0 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.

SPY

+13.6%

XDTE

+13.6%

25.5% of it arrived as cash

about even with SPY

Total return, distributions reinvested

About even with SPY

XDTE over 1 year: paid 25.5%, price −14.3%, total +13.6%, SPY +13.6%, 0.0 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.

SPY

+13.6%

XDTE

+13.6%

25.5% as cash

about even with SPY

25.5% of it arrived as cash. Total return, distributions reinvested. XDTE over 1 year: paid 25.5%, price −14.3%, total +13.6%, SPY +13.6%, 0.0 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.

Data to Oct 28, 2026.

XYLD · 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 2.2 pts ahead of SPY

XYLD

+15.8%

SPY

+13.6%

2.2 pts ahead of SPY

XYLD over 1 year: paid 10.6%, price +4.3%, total +15.8%, SPY +13.6%, +2.2 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.

SPY

+13.6%

XYLD

+15.8%

10.6% of it arrived as cash

2.2 pts ahead of SPY

Total return, distributions reinvested

2.2 pts ahead of SPY

XYLD over 1 year: paid 10.6%, price +4.3%, total +15.8%, SPY +13.6%, +2.2 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.

SPY

+13.6%

XYLD

+15.8%

10.6% as cash

2.2 pts ahead of SPY

10.6% of it arrived as cash. Both charts share one scale, with zero at the line. XYLD over 1 year: paid 10.6%, price +4.3%, total +15.8%, SPY +13.6%, +2.2 pts. Data to Oct 28, 2026.

Data to Oct 28, 2026.

Pair scorecard

XYLD costs 0.37 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.2 points; XYLD is 10.3 times larger.

Points (pts) are percentage points.

XDTE vs XYLD: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Measure	XDTE	XYLD
Paid and earned
Measure	XDTE	XYLD
Total return, 1 year	+13.6%	+15.8%
Price change, 1 year	fell 14.3%	rose 4.3%
Return of capital, issuer estimate	100% of the Oct 23, 2026 payment	93% of the Sep 24, 2026 payment
Against its benchmark
Measure	XDTE	XYLD
Benchmark	S&P 500, measured through SPY	S&P 500, measured through SPY
Cost and size
Measure	XDTE	XYLD
Expense ratio	0.97%	0.60%
Net assets, as of Oct 12, 2026	$330m	$3.4bn
Holdings
Measure	XDTE	XYLD
Holdings in common	0%

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

IQ Income Score37.5XDTE77.7XYLD

How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 164 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 100 is best. How it is computed

XDTE 37.5

XYLD 77.7

0.3, the lowest in this set 99.7, the highest

A percentile among the 164 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 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 →

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026. Method

Risk and return

Mar 15, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026 · 136 weekly returns · each against SPY

XDTE XYLD

Return

Total return edge XDTE +46.5% +36.5%

Annualized edge XDTE +15.7% +12.6%

Price return edge XYLD −27.7% +1.5%

Risk

Volatility edge XYLD 13.2% 9.1%

Max drawdown edge XYLD −16.7% −14.0%

Downside capture 91.3% 50.5%

Beta 0.87 0.54

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge XYLD (slight) 0.85 0.88

Sortino edge XYLD (slight) 1.20 1.24

Treynor 0.129 0.149

Calmar edge XDTE (slight) 0.94 0.90

Against the benchmark

Alpha −0.2% a year +0.9% a year

Alpha t-stat −0.10 0.32

Information ratio −0.46 −0.63

Tracking error 4.3% 8.2%

Reading

XDTE returned more: +46.5% to +36.5%. XYLD swung less: 9.1% to 13.2%. XYLD fell less at its worst: −14.0% to −16.7%.

Full scorecard

19 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓

Risk and return: XDTE vs XYLD: Dividend Yield & Total Return
Measure	XDTE	XYLD	SPY	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+46.5%	+36.5%		XDTE	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+15.7%	+12.6%		XDTE	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	−27.7%	+1.5%		XYLD	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	13.2%	9.1%		XYLD	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	9.3%	6.5%		XYLD	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−16.7%	−14.0%		XYLD	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Upside capture	83.4%	41.8%	100.0%	XDTE	Share of its benchmark's rise caught in the weeks it rose.
Downside capture	91.3%	50.5%	100.0%	XYLD	Share of its benchmark's fall taken in the weeks it fell. Lower is better.
Beta	0.87	0.54	1.00	XYLD lower	How far it moves for each 1% its benchmark moves.
R squared	0.92	0.74	1.00	Not an edge	Share of its weekly moves its benchmark explains.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	0.85	0.88		XYLD (slight)	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	1.20	1.24		XYLD (slight)	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Treynor	0.129	0.149	0.131	XYLD	Return above Treasury bills per unit of beta.
Calmar	0.94	0.90		XDTE (slight)	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.
Against the benchmark
Benchmark	SPY	SPY	SPY		The ETF each fund is measured against.
Alpha	−0.2% a year	+0.9% a year	0.0%	Not significant	Yearly return beyond what its beta to the benchmark predicts.
Alpha t-stat	−0.10	0.32		Not an edge	How sure the alpha is. Below 2, it could be chance.
Alpha range	−5.0% to +4.5%	−4.9% to +6.7%		Both include zero	The 95% range for the yearly alpha.
Information ratio	−0.46	−0.63		XDTE	Return against its benchmark per unit of tracking error.
Tracking error	4.3%	8.2%	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, 136 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

What they share

By the books each fund has filed, XDTE and XYLD hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026.

50%

0 half 100%

half

0% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first XDTE XYLD

Only in one fund ↓

Only in XDTE

SPY 11/19/2027 77.43 C 90.12%

Only in XYLD

NVIDIA CORPORATION 7.64%

APPLE INC. 7.13%

MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.42%

AMAZON.COM, INC. 4.18%

ALPHABET INC. 3.28%

BROADCOM INC. 2.90%

ALPHABET INC. 2.65%

META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.92%

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Side by side

XDTE Roundhill S&P 500 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF · 0DTE covered call on SPY, paying weekly XYLD Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF · Covered call on SPY, paying monthly

Issuer Roundhill Global X

Strategy 0DTE covered call covered call

Benchmark S&P 500 (SPY) S&P 500 (SPY)

Pays weekly monthly

Payout rate, annualized 15.2% 9.1%

Expense ratio 0.97% 0.60%

Cash paid, 1 year 25.5% 10.6%

Price change, 1 year −14.3% +4.3%

Total return, 1 year +13.6% +15.8%

Benchmark return, 1 year +13.6% +13.6%

Ahead or behind 0.0 pts +2.2 pts

Return of capital, latest estimate 100% 93%

Age 2.6 years 13.3 years

Net assets, XDTE as of Oct 28, 2026 and XYLD as of Oct 12, 2026 $322m $3.4bn

As of Oct 28, 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: XDTE vs XYLD: Dividend Yield & Total Return
	Total return		Cash paid		Against the benchmark
Window	XDTE	XYLD	XDTE	XYLD	XDTE	XYLD
3 months	+5.7%	+5.0%	4.4%	2.3%	−0.5 pts	−1.1 pts
6 months	+8.2%	+9.2%	9.6%	5.2%	−0.8 pts	+0.1 pts
1 year	+13.6%	+15.8%	25.5%	10.6%	0.0 pts	+2.2 pts
3 years	–	+53.3%	–	35.1%	–	−41.7 pts
Since launchNot the same days: XDTE Mar 2024 · XYLD Jun 2013	+47.8%	+195.1%	60.6%	114.5%	−7.1 pts	−320.2 pts

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XDTE and XYLD are built for the same job. How do they differ in cost, holdings and results?

Income paid. XDTE paid 25.5% and XYLD 10.6% (cash paid over 1 year, as a share of its price at the start), a gap of 14.9 points.
Holdings in common. 0% of the weight is in the same securities (holdings dated Oct 28, 2026 and Jul 31, 2026).
One-year total return. Over 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 XDTE returned +13.6% and XYLD +15.8% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 2.2 points.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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About each fund

XDTE

Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, XDTE paid 25.5% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price fell 14.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +13.6%. S&P 500 (SPY) returned +13.6% over the same days, so a holder was about even. At its price on Oct 28, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 15.2%, paid weekly. Roundhill 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.

XYLD

Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, XYLD paid 10.6% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 4.3%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +15.8%. S&P 500 (SPY) returned +13.6% over the same days, so a holder was ahead by 2.2 pts. At its price on Oct 28, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 9.1%, paid monthly. Global X estimates that 93% of the distribution paid Sep 24, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice).

Questions people ask

Which paid more, XDTE or XYLD?: Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, XDTE paid 25.5% of its starting price in cash and XYLD paid 10.6%, so XDTE paid more. Cash paid is not the same as money made: the price change matters too.
Which returned more once distributions are counted, XDTE or XYLD?: With every distribution reinvested, XDTE returned +13.6% and XYLD +15.8% over the year to Oct 28, 2026.
Which is cheaper, XDTE or XYLD?: XDTE charges 0.97% a year and XYLD charges 0.60%, so XYLD is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Sources and dates

XDTE filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

XDTE prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

XDTE 19a-1 distribution notice ↗

Roundhill page for XDTE ↗

XYLD filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

XYLD prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

XYLD 19a-1 distribution notice ↗

Global X page for XYLD ↗

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