BALQ iShares Nasdaq Premium Income Active ETF
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Since launch in Dec 2025, BALQ paid 9.3% in cash and returned 21.5% in total, against 16.9% for QQQ.
Promise check: DeliveredOver the time since its launch to Oct 28, 2026, BALQ paid 9.3% in cash and returned 21.5% in total, covering 231.2% of its payout.
BALQ risk and return scorecard
vs QQQ · Dec 2025 to Oct 2026 · 45 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
45 weekly returns: annualized numbers and ratios need 52.
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 23, 2026What you earned
What can be shown yet
First traded Dec 3, 2025More on BALQ
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return since launch, Dec 3, 2025
$55.68+0.6%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 | QQQ | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −1.4% | 0.6% | −2.0% | −1.5% | +0.1 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +10.7% | 2.5% | +8.1% | +9.8% | +0.9 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +12.3% | 5.4% | +6.7% | +9.9% | +2.4 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +22.1% | 8.5% | +12.9% | +18.5% | +3.6 pts |
| Since launch Dec 3, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +21.5% | 9.3% | +11.3% | +16.9% | +4.6 pts |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Dec 2025: no 1 year and 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
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Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 23, 2026BALQ: in the 224 trading days to Oct 23, 2026, net $31.0m came in.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
BALQ, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 18 days and went out on 0 days.
Money in on 18 of the 63 trading days, out on 0.
BALQ, net flow each trading day over the 249 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 31 days and went out on 4 days, of the 224 days with daily data; the other 25 have none. Before Dec 3, 2025 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 31 days, out on 4. 25 days missing.
BALQ, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 24, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 31 days and went out on 4 days, of the 224 days with daily data; the other 176 have none. Before Dec 3, 2025 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 31 days, out on 4. 176 days missing.
Daily data starts Dec 3, 2025.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’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. Checked against the filing: The month’s daily sum and the filing’s B.6 number agree within rounding or, where the filing’s is larger, within rounding plus the fund’s creation and redemption fees. The full rule is in the fund’s flows file. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for BALQ, back to Oct 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare BALQ with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months63 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year47 weeks
Net flow into BALQ each week, Dec 3, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outOct 2025 to Oct 2026
BALQ, money in and money out each month from Oct 2025 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Oct 2025 to Jun 2026 are from BALQ’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jul 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. 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 8 and went out in 1.
Bars for Oct 2025 to Jun 2026 are from BALQ’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jul 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 13 months listed, money came in on net in 8 and went out in 1.
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 23, 2026.
BALQ key stats
BALQ return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
10 distributions for BALQ, $0.3508 to $0.6923 a share and $0.4493 in the middle, Dec 30, 2025 to Oct 1, 2026. 2 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
BALQ pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.3692 a share, which went ex on Oct 1, 2026, with payment about 3 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 30 days the ex-date falls near Nov 2, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for BALQ. 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 BALQ. Source: ETFIQ from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
Source: ETFIQ, from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
BALQ top ten by weight, 49.2% of the fund, of its 115 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. The options the fund writes are not positions of this kind and are not listed. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: iShares’s daily holdings file. Data as of Oct 27, 2026. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 28, 2026.
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About BALQ
How we measure
12 seats on BALQ, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 1 Mixed, 8 Challenges, 2 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about BALQ
- How much has BALQ paid since it launched?
- Over the period from its first trade on Dec 3, 2025 to Oct 28, 2026, BALQ paid 9.3% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price rose 11.3%.
- Is BALQ ahead of QQQ?
- Over the period from its first trade on Dec 3, 2025 to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, BALQ returned +21.5% against +16.9% for Nasdaq-100 (QQQ), so a holder was ahead of it by 4.6 points.
- How often does BALQ pay, and how much?
- BALQ pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 8.0% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the BALQ distribution return of capital?
- iShares estimates 86% of the distribution paid Oct 6, 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 BALQ next pay a distribution?
- BALQ pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 1, 2026 at $0.3692 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 30 days the ex-date falls near Nov 2, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 3 days.
- What does BALQ cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year.
- How much of BALQ’s distribution is return of capital?
- iShares’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 86.0% of the distribution paid Oct 6, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Jan 5, 2026 to Oct 6, 2026, the estimate is 65.6%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025 puts it at 0.0% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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