DUBS Aptus Large Cap Enhanced Yield ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, DUBS paid 2.3% in cash and returned 17.1% in total, against 13.6% for SPY.
Promise check: DeliveredOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, DUBS paid 2.3% in cash and returned 17.1% in total, covering 743.5% of its payout.
DUBS risk and return scorecard
vs SPY · Jun 2023 to Oct 2026 · 174 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 Sep 29, 2026More on DUBS
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$43.36+0.2%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% | 0.6% | +0.5% | +0.9% | +0.1 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +7.0% | 0.6% | +6.4% | +6.1% | +0.9 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +10.9% | 1.2% | +9.7% | +9.1% | +1.8 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +17.0% | 1.8% | +15.1% | +14.1% | +2.9 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +17.1% | 2.3% | +14.6% | +13.6% | +3.5 pts |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +96.5% | 10.4% | +82.5% | +95.0% | +1.5 pts |
| Since launch Jun 14, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +87.3% | 10.2% | +73.4% | +84.5% | +2.8 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Jun 14, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +20.4% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
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
DUBS paid 2.3% in cash over the year and returned 17.1% in total, more than it paid out.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of Jul 31, 2026DUBS: in the month to Jul 31, 2026, net $16.7m came in, by its SEC filing.
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions DUBS 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 DUBS, back to May 2023, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare DUBS with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outAug 2023 to Jul 2026
DUBS, money in and money out each month from Aug 2023 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from DUBS’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 29 and went out in 6.
Every bar is from DUBS’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 29 and went out in 6.
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.
DUBS key stats
DUBS return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Jul 13, 2026
13 distributions for DUBS, $0.0776 to $0.2492 a share and $0.2088 in the middle, Sep 27, 2023 to Sep 29, 2026.
DUBS pays quarterly. The last distribution was $0.2391 a share, which went ex on Sep 29, 2026, with payment about 2 days later.
Cash distributions per share for DUBS. 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 DUBS.
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: 743.5% · 98th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
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About DUBS
How we measure
12 seats on DUBS, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 5 Challenges, 5 Not enough data, 1 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about DUBS
- How much has DUBS paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, DUBS paid 2.3% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price rose 14.6%.
- Is DUBS ahead of SPY?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, DUBS returned +17.1% against +13.6% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was ahead of it by 3.5 points.
- How often does DUBS pay, and how much?
- DUBS pays quarterly. The latest distribution annualizes to 2.2% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the DUBS distribution return of capital?
- Aptus estimates 71% of the distribution paid Sep 30, 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 DUBS next pay a distribution?
- DUBS pays quarterly. The last distribution went ex on Sep 29, 2026 at $0.2391 a share.
- What does DUBS cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.40% a year.
- How much of DUBS’s distribution is return of capital?
- Aptus’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 71.0% of the distribution paid Sep 30, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Dec 31, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, the estimate is 70.1%. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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