GDXW Roundhill Gold Miners WeeklyPay ETF
Option income on GDX, paying weekly
Since its launch on Oct 30, 2025, GDXW paid 45.4% in cash and still finished 2.3 points behind GDX.
Key facts
What a holder got
Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, GDXW returned +29.6% with distributions reinvested and Gold miners (GDX) returned +31.9%, so a holder came out behind it by 2.3 points. The lighter segment is the 45.4% that arrived as cash rather than as price.
Period by period
| Window | Cash paid | Price | Total return | GDX | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | 12.6% | +2.6% | +17.0% | +15.7% | +1.3 pts |
| 6 months | 24.9% | −7.7% | +19.4% | +19.2% | +0.2 pts |
| Since launch | 45.4% | −17.3% | +29.6% | +31.9% | −2.3 pts |
In plain words
Since it launched on Oct 30, 2025, GDXW has returned +29.6% with distributions reinvested, against +31.9% for Gold miners (GDX), and has paid out 45.4% of its starting value in cash along the way. It pays weekly, and at its current price the latest distribution annualizes to 56.2%. No Rule 19a-1 notice has been published for this fund, so there is no issuer estimate of how much of its distributions was a return of capital.
| Strategy | option income |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | Gold miners (GDX) |
| Pays | weekly |
| Net assets (the issuer’s own daily fund list, as of Sep 18, 2026) | $84m |
| Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ) | 56.2% |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Apr 30, 2026) | 0.99% |
| Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ) | 54.9% |
| Launched | Oct 30, 2025 |
Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation from exchange prices and cash distributions (Tiingo end-of-day), total return with distributions reinvested. Return of capital is the issuer’s estimate. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- How much has GDXW paid over the last year?
- Over the period from its launch on Oct 30, 2025 to Sep 18, 2026, GDXW paid 45.4% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 17.3%.
- Is GDXW ahead of GDX?
- Over the period from its launch on Oct 30, 2025 to Sep 18, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, GDXW returned +29.6% against +31.9% for Gold miners (GDX), so a holder was behind it by 2.3 points.
- How often does GDXW pay, and how much?
- GDXW pays weekly. The latest distribution annualizes to 56.2% at its price on Sep 18, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- What does GDXW cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.99% a year.
The words on this page
- Total return
- What a holder actually ended up with: price change plus every distribution, reinvested. The only figure that answers whether you came out ahead.
- Cash paid
- Distributions over the window as a share of what the fund cost at the start. A measure of cash delivered, not of return: a fund can pay a great deal and still lose money.
- Ahead or behind
- The fund’s total return minus the benchmark’s over exactly the same days, in percentage points. Both sides reinvest.
- Return of capital
- The issuer’s own estimate, in a Rule 19a-1 notice, of how much of a distribution was your own money returned. An estimate and a tax characterization, not a measure of erosion.
- Covered call
- Selling call options on shares the fund holds. It collects a premium and gives up the gains above the strike, which is why these funds pay well and lag a rising market.
Every term used here, defined in full on the income ETFs vocabulary page.
Where these figures came from
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Cite this page. ETFIQ, GDXW, income ETFs, data as of Sep 18, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/gdxw Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.