BIGY YieldMax Target 12 Big 50 Option Income ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BIGY paid 12.0% in cash and returned 8.3% in total, against 13.6% for SPY.
Promise check: PartlyOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, BIGY paid 12.0% in cash and returned 8.3% in total, covering 69.2% of its payout. Since launch it covered 129.7%.
BIGY risk and return scorecard
vs SPY · Nov 2024 to Oct 2026 · 99 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 27, 2026What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 7, 2026More on BIGY
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$51.93+0.3%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 | +0.2% | 1.0% | −0.8% | +0.9% | −0.7 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +4.9% | 3.1% | +1.8% | +6.1% | −1.2 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +7.2% | 6.6% | +0.5% | +9.1% | −1.9 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +8.6% | 9.4% | −1.1% | +14.1% | −5.5 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +8.3% | 12.0% | −4.4% | +13.6% | −5.3 pts |
| Since launch Nov 21, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 | +29.7% | 22.9% | +3.5% | +33.1% | −3.4 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Nov 21, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 | +14.4% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Nov 2024: 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
BIGY paid 12.0% in cash over the year and returned 8.3% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 27, 2026BIGY: in the 18 trading days to Oct 27, 2026, net $1.3m went out, over 17 of 18 trading days.
Oct 27, 2026
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
BIGY, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 1 day, of the 17 days with daily data; the other 48 have none. Before Oct 2, 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 0 days, out on 1. 48 days missing.
BIGY, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 1 day, of the 17 days with daily data; the other 234 have none. Before Oct 2, 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 0 days, out on 1. 234 days missing.
BIGY, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 26, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 1 day, of the 17 days with daily data; the other 383 have none. Before Oct 2, 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 0 days, out on 1. 383 days missing.
Daily data starts Oct 2, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from YieldMax’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 BIGY, back to Nov 2024, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare BIGY with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months17 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year5 weeks
Net flow into BIGY each week, Oct 2, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2024 to Oct 2026
BIGY, money in and money out each month from Nov 2024 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from BIGY’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 22 months listed, money came in on net in 12 and went out in 3.
Every bar is from BIGY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 22 months listed, money came in on net in 12 and went out in 3.
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 27, 2026. Last checked Oct 29, 2026.
BIGY key stats
BIGY return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
13 distributions for BIGY, $0.2233 to $0.5415 a share and $0.5276 in the middle, Nov 5, 2025 to Oct 7, 2026. 2 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
BIGY pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.5323 a share, which went ex on Oct 7, 2026, with payment about 2 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 28 days the ex-date falls near Nov 4, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for BIGY. 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 BIGY. 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 BIGY.
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: 69.2% · 44th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
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About BIGY
How we measure
12 seats on BIGY, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 5 Challenges, 6 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about BIGY
- How much has BIGY paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BIGY paid 12.0% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 4.4%.
- Is BIGY ahead of SPY?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, BIGY returned +8.3% against +13.6% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was behind it by 5.3 points.
- How often does BIGY pay, and how much?
- BIGY pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 12.3% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the BIGY distribution return of capital?
- YieldMax estimates 0% of the distribution paid Sep 3, 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 BIGY next pay a distribution?
- BIGY pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 7, 2026 at $0.5323 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 28 days the ex-date falls near Nov 4, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
- What does BIGY cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.09% a year.
- How much of BIGY’s distribution is return of capital?
- YieldMax’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 0.0% of the distribution paid Sep 3, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Nov 6, 2025 to Sep 3, 2026, the estimate is 68.5%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Jul 31, 2026 puts it at 65.0% of distributions. The year’s notices had estimated 79.3%, so the two were 14.2 points apart. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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