GOOY YieldMax(R) GOOGL Option Income Strategy ETF
Synthetic covered call on GOOGL, paying weekly
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, GOOY paid 44.8% in cash and still finished 8.5 points behind GOOGL.
Key facts
ETFIQ Return Stability Score
54.127th of 61
GOOY paid 44.8% in cash. Its price fell 15.1%, so 34% of what you were paid came back out of your own capital.
Was the payout funded by returns, or by your own capital?
28.7% of the 61 sit at or below GOOY on this measure.
79.5% of the 61 sit at or below GOOY on this measure.
Weighted evenly, those two positions are what the score combines, across the 61 income ETFs writing on a single company. Neither spread above is the score: a fund can sit further right on one and score lower. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
| What it measures | This fund | Its percentile | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| against its benchmark | −8.5 pts | 28.7 | 50% |
| what happened to the principal | −15.1% | 79.5 | 50% |
73rd of 354 income ETFs by net assets
What a holder got
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, GOOY returned +32.7% with distributions reinvested and Alphabet (GOOGL) returned +41.2%, so a holder came out behind it by 8.5 points. The lighter segment is the 44.8% that arrived as cash rather than as price.
Period by period
| Window | Cash paid | Price | Total return | GOOGL | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | 7.3% | −12.2% | −5.0% | −5.8% | +0.8 pts |
| 6 months | 20.8% | −10.9% | +9.0% | +12.1% | −3.1 pts |
| 1 year | 44.8% | −15.1% | +32.7% | +41.2% | −8.5 pts |
| 3 years | 81.3% | −41.2% | +79.5% | +152.5% | −73.0 pts |
| Since launch | 82.1% | −41.7% | +80.5% | +157.8% | −77.2 pts |
When GOOY pays
GOOY pays weekly. The last distribution was $0.0533 a share, which went ex on Sep 10, 2026, with payment about 1 day later. The issuer has set the next ex-date at Sep 17, 2026, payable Sep 18, 2026, but has not declared the amount.
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.0533 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 | $0.0533 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Oct 2, 2026 | $0.0533 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | $0.0533 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | $0.0533 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | $0.0533 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
Every distribution ETFIQ holds for GOOY (13, most recent first)
| Ex-date | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | $0.0533 |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $0.0662 |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $0.0798 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | $0.0715 |
| Aug 13, 2026 | $0.0715 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | $0.0935 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | $0.0862 |
| Jul 23, 2026 | $0.0782 |
| Jul 16, 2026 | $0.0734 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | $0.0744 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | $0.0796 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | $0.076 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | $0.0838 |
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In plain words
Since it launched on Jul 28, 2023, GOOY has returned +80.5% with distributions reinvested, against +157.8% for Alphabet (GOOGL), and has paid out 82.1% of its starting value in cash along the way. It pays weekly, and at its current price the latest distribution annualizes to 23.2%. YieldMax estimates that 85% of the distribution paid Sep 11, 2026 was a return of capital. That is the issuer’s own Rule 19a-1 estimate and a tax characterization, made before the fund year closes: it says the payment included money the fund gave back rather than earned, not that the fund is eroding.
| Strategy | synthetic covered call |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | Alphabet (GOOGL) |
| Pays | weekly |
| Net assets (issuer page, as of Sep 11, 2026) | $226m |
| Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ) | 23.2% |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Feb 24, 2026) | 1.14% |
| Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ) | 52.8% |
| Launched | Jul 28, 2023 |
| Return of capital, latest distribution (YieldMax 19a-1 estimate) | 84.5% |
| Pays | weekly |
| Typical gap between ex-dates | 7 days |
| Typical wait from ex-date to payment | 1 day |
| Last paid, per share | $0.0533 ex Sep 10, 2026 |
| Sum of the last 12 distributions | $0.9036 |
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 GOOY paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, GOOY paid 44.8% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 15.1%.
- Is GOOY ahead of GOOGL?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, GOOY returned +32.7% against +41.2% for Alphabet (GOOGL), so a holder was behind it by 8.5 points.
- How often does GOOY pay, and how much?
- GOOY pays weekly. The latest distribution annualizes to 23.2% at its price on Sep 11, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the GOOY distribution return of capital?
- YieldMax estimates 85% of the distribution paid Sep 11, 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 GOOY next pay a distribution?
- GOOY pays weekly. The last distribution went ex on Sep 10, 2026 at $0.0533 a share. The issuer has set the next ex-date at Sep 17, 2026 but not the amount.
- What does GOOY cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.14% 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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