ACEI Innovator Equity Autocallable Income Strategy ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, ACEI paid 11.0% in cash and returned 5.4% in total, against 13.6% for SPY.
Promise check: MissedOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, ACEI paid 11.0% in cash and returned 5.4% in total, covering 49.1% of its payout. Since launch it covered 63.1%.
ACEI risk and return scorecard
vs SPY · Oct 2025 to Oct 2026 · 55 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Oct 26, 2026What you earned
What it paid
11 distributions · latest Sep 30, 2026More on ACEI
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$23.78+0.8%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | Cash paid | Price | SPY | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.1% | 1.1% | 0.0% | +0.9% | +0.2 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +10.7% | 3.4% | +7.1% | +6.1% | +4.6 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +3.2% | 6.3% | −3.3% | +9.1% | −5.9 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +6.1% | 9.2% | −3.5% | +14.1% | −8.0 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +5.4% | 11.0% | −6.2% | +13.6% | −8.2 pts |
| Since launch Sep 25, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +7.0% | 11.1% | −4.7% | +18.6% | −11.6 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Sep 25, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +6.4% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Sep 2025: no 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
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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
ACEI paid 11.0% in cash over the year and returned 5.4% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 26, 2026ACEI: in the 12 trading days to Oct 26, 2026, net $4.2m came in.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
ACEI, net flow each trading day over the 64 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026: money came in on 3 days and went out on 0 days, of the 12 days with daily data; the other 52 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 3 days, out on 0. 52 days missing.
ACEI, net flow each trading day over the 250 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 26, 2026: money came in on 3 days and went out on 0 days, of the 12 days with daily data; the other 238 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 3 days, out on 0. 238 days missing.
ACEI, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 25, 2025 to Oct 26, 2026: money came in on 3 days and went out on 0 days, of the 12 days with daily data; the other 388 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 3 days, out on 0. 388 days missing.
Daily data starts Oct 9, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from Innovator’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for ACEI, back to Aug 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare ACEI with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months12 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year4 weeks
Net flow into ACEI each week, Oct 9, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outAug 2025 to Oct 2026
ACEI, money in and money out each month from Aug 2025 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from ACEI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 13 months listed, money came in on net in 12 and went out in 0.
Every bar is from ACEI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 13 months listed, money came in on net in 12 and went out in 0.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 26, 2026. Last checked Oct 29, 2026.
ACEI key stats
ACEI return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 28, 2026
11 distributions for ACEI, $0.2384 to $0.2937 a share and $0.2444 in the middle, Nov 28, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026. 2 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
ACEI pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.2551 a share, which went ex on Sep 30, 2026, with payment about 2 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 31 days the ex-date falls near Nov 2, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for ACEI. A projected row carries the fund’s own spacing forward from its last ex-date, at the last amount paid. Neither is an issuer statement. Source: ETFIQ.
Cash distributions per share for ACEI. Source: ETFIQ from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
Source: ETFIQ, from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
How much of what it paid out did its total return cover?
That is the share of the 164 income ETFs not writing on a single company sitting at or below ACEI.
One year only, and a ratio of two published numbers: it says nothing about where a distribution came from. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
Total return as a share of the cash paid: 49.1% · 36th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
About ACEI
How we measure
12 seats on ACEI, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 5 Challenges, 6 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about ACEI
- How much has ACEI paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, ACEI paid 11.0% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 6.2%.
- Is ACEI ahead of SPY?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, ACEI returned +5.4% against +13.6% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was behind it by 8.2 points.
- How often does ACEI pay, and how much?
- ACEI pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 12.9% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the ACEI distribution return of capital?
- Innovator estimates 75% of the distribution paid Oct 2, 2026 was return of capital. That is a tax characterization from the fund's own 19a-1 notice, not a measure of erosion.
- When does ACEI next pay a distribution?
- ACEI pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Sep 30, 2026 at $0.2551 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 31 days the ex-date falls near Nov 2, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
- What does ACEI cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.79% a year.
- How much of ACEI’s distribution is return of capital?
- Innovator’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 75.0% of the distribution paid Oct 2, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Dec 1, 2025 to Oct 2, 2026, the estimate is 78.0%. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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