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HEMI Hartford Equity Premium Income ETF

Covered call on SPY, paying monthly

Since its launch on Dec 17, 2025, HEMI paid 6.0% in cash and still finished 3.8 points behind SPY.

Hartford · Income ETFs · data as of

Key facts

6.0%Cash paid, since launch, on its starting price
+11.0%Total return, since launch
−3.8 ptsAgainst SPY
9.1%Latest payout, annualized

Method

What a holder got

HEMI against SPYHEMI returned +11.0% with distributions reinvested against +14.8% for S&P 500 (SPY), a gap of −3.8 pts. Of that, 6.0% arrived as cash rather than price.+11.0%HEMI total return+14.8%S&P 500 (SPY)6.0% of it arrived as cash

Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, HEMI returned +11.0% with distributions reinvested and S&P 500 (SPY) returned +14.8%, so a holder came out behind it by 3.8 points. The lighter segment is the 6.0% that arrived as cash rather than as price.

Its ten largest equity positions

HEMI top ten by weight, 47.4% of its 79 equity positions, from the holdings filed for Apr 30, 2026. The options the fund writes are not positions of this kind and are not listed. Source: the fund’s SEC filing.
HoldingWeight
NVIDIA Corp9.11%
Alphabet Inc7.69%
Apple Inc5.86%
Amazon.com Inc5.73%
Microsoft Corp5.72%
Broadcom Inc4.02%
Meta Platforms Inc2.66%
JPMorgan Chase & Co2.42%
Eli Lilly & Co2.13%
Mastercard Inc2.04%

Method

Period by period

HEMI over each window to Sep 11, 2026. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation. Source: ETFIQ.
WindowCash paidPriceTotal returnSPYAhead or behind
3 months2.3%+0.5%+2.8%+3.3%−0.5 pts
6 months4.8%+6.3%+11.3%+16.0%−4.7 pts
Since launch6.0%+4.6%+11.0%+14.8%−3.8 pts

Method

When HEMI pays

HEMI pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.3149 a share, which went ex on Aug 28, 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 Sep 28, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.

Expected distributions for HEMI. Where the basis is a projection, ETFIQ has carried the fund’s own spacing forward from its last ex-date and held the amount at the last one paid; neither is an issuer statement. Source: ETFIQ.
Ex-datePay dateAmountBasis
Sep 28, 2026Sep 30, 2026$0.3149ETFIQ projection from the fund’s own cadence
Oct 28, 2026Oct 30, 2026$0.3149ETFIQ projection from the fund’s own cadence
Every distribution ETFIQ holds for HEMI (8, most recent first)
Cash distributions per share for HEMI. Source: ETFIQ from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
Ex-dateAmount
Aug 28, 2026$0.3149
Jul 30, 2026$0.289
Jun 29, 2026$0.3322
May 28, 2026$0.2985
Apr 29, 2026$0.2907
Mar 30, 2026$0.3486
Feb 27, 2026$0.1766
Jan 30, 2026$0.3432

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Method

In plain words

Since it launched on Dec 17, 2025, HEMI has returned +11.0% with distributions reinvested, against +14.8% for S&P 500 (SPY), and has paid out 6.0% of its starting value in cash along the way. It pays monthly, and at its current price the latest distribution annualizes to 9.1%. 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.

HEMI (Hartford Equity Premium Income ETF), income ETFs fields as of Sep 11, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Strategycovered call
BenchmarkS&P 500 (SPY)
Paysmonthly
Net assets (SEC filing, whole fund, as filed for Apr 30, 2026)$33m
Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ)9.1%
Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Dec 10, 2025)0.49%
Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ)5.8%
LaunchedDec 17, 2025
Paysmonthly
Typical gap between ex-dates30 days
Typical wait from ex-date to payment2 days
Last paid, per share$0.3149 ex Aug 28, 2026
Sum of the last 8 distributions$2.3938

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 HEMI paid over the last year?
Over the period from its launch on Dec 17, 2025 to Sep 11, 2026, HEMI paid 6.0% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price rose 4.6%.
Is HEMI ahead of SPY?
Over the period from its launch on Dec 17, 2025 to Sep 11, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, HEMI returned +11.0% against +14.8% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was behind it by 3.8 points.
How often does HEMI pay, and how much?
HEMI pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 9.1% at its price on Sep 11, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
When does HEMI next pay a distribution?
HEMI pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Aug 28, 2026 at $0.3149 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 30 days the ex-date falls near Sep 28, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
What does HEMI cost?
The prospectus expense ratio is 0.49% 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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