CAIE Calamos Autocallable Income ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, CAIE paid 14.0% in cash and returned 12.2% in total, against 13.6% for SPY.
Promise check: PartlyOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, CAIE paid 14.0% in cash and returned 12.2% in total, covering 87.1% of its payout. Since launch it covered 144.3%.
CAIE risk and return scorecard
vs SPY · Jul 2025 to Oct 2026 · 68 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 · Jul 31, 2026What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 1, 2026More on CAIE
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$26.70+0.4%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 | +1.0% | 1.2% | −0.2% | +0.9% | +0.1 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +5.1% | 3.6% | +1.4% | +6.1% | −1.0 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +6.3% | 7.0% | −0.9% | +9.1% | −2.8 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +11.1% | 10.7% | −0.1% | +14.1% | −3.0 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +12.2% | 14.0% | −2.7% | +13.6% | −1.4 pts |
| Since launch Jun 25, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +28.0% | 19.4% | +6.8% | +28.9% | −0.9 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Jun 25, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +20.2% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Jun 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
CAIE paid 14.0% in cash over the year and returned 12.2% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of Jul 31, 2026CAIE: in the month to Jul 31, 2026, net $137m came in, by its SEC filing.
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions CAIE files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.
How this is computed
ETFIQ reads no daily data for this fund, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is Jul 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for CAIE, back to Jun 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare CAIE with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outJun 2025 to Jul 2026
CAIE, money in and money out each month from Jun 2025 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from CAIE’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 14 months listed, money came in on net in 14 and went out in 0.
Every bar is from CAIE’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 14 months listed, money came in on net in 14 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.
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 SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Jul 31, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
CAIE key stats
CAIE return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 14, 2025
13 distributions for CAIE, $0.3126 to $0.3281 a share and $0.3195 in the middle, Oct 1, 2025 to Oct 1, 2026. 2 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
CAIE pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.3138 a share, which went ex on Oct 1, 2026, with payment about 2 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 CAIE. 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 CAIE. 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 CAIE.
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: 87.1% · 50th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
About CAIE
How we measure
12 seats on CAIE, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 5 Challenges, 5 Not enough data, 1 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about CAIE
- How much has CAIE paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, CAIE paid 14.0% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 2.7%.
- Is CAIE ahead of SPY?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, CAIE returned +12.2% against +13.6% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was behind it by 1.4 points.
- How often does CAIE pay, and how much?
- CAIE pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 14.1% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the CAIE distribution return of capital?
- Calamos estimates 100% of the distribution paid Oct 8, 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 CAIE next pay a distribution?
- CAIE pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 1, 2026 at $0.3138 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 2 days.
- What does CAIE cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.74% a year.
- How much of CAIE’s distribution is return of capital?
- Calamos’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 100.0% of the distribution paid Oct 8, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Oct 8, 2026 to Oct 8, 2026, the estimate is 100.0%. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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