IAUI NEOS Gold High Income ETF

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$46.64
+2.8% · 1 day, price
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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, IAUI paid 12.6% in cash and lost 0.3% in total, against 2.8% for GLD.

Option income on GLD, paying monthlyNEOS ↗Expense ratio 0.79%Fund assets $658m on Oct 28, 2026First traded Jun 5, 2025Benchmark Gold (GLD)Fund page at the issuer ↗SEC filings ↗Every NEOS fund ETFIQ coversDividend history

Promise check: MissedOver the year to Nov 4, 2026, IAUI paid 12.6% in cash and returned −0.3% in total, covering −2.4% of its payout. Since launch it covered 59.9%.

IAUI risk and return scorecard

vs GLD · Jun 2025 to Oct 2026 · 72 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted

Short history · 17 months
IAUI +5.5%, GLD +12.5%, Jun 2025 to Oct 2026, distributions reinvested.
Return
MeasureIAUIGLDEdge
Total return+5.5%+12.5%GLD
Annualized+3.9%+8.9%GLD
Price return−11.4%+12.5%GLD
Risk
MeasureIAUIGLDEdge
Volatility17.2%22.1%IAUI
Max drawdown−23.7%−26.5%IAUI
Upside capture60.6%100.0%GLD
Downside capture87.0%100.0%IAUI
Risk-adjusted
MeasureIAUIGLDEdge
Sharpe ratio0.080.32GLD
Sortino ratio0.110.46GLD
Alpha vs GLD
MeasureIAUIGLDEdge
Alpha, a year−3.8%Not significant
Alpha t-stat−0.99
Beta to GLD0.751.00Lower beta

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 · Oct 28, 2026
12 months to Jun 30, 2026
+$496m
Jun 2025 to Jun 2026
+$510m

What you earned

IAUI −2.1%, GLD −1.9%: total return over one month to Nov 4, 2026.
IAUI−2.1%
GLD−1.9%
Paid 1.0% in cash. Price −3.1%.
IAUI −4.7%, GLD −4.4%: total return over three months to Nov 4, 2026.
IAUI−4.7%
GLD−4.4%
Paid 3.0% in cash. Price −7.5%.
IAUI −13.0%, GLD −13.6%: total return over six months to Nov 4, 2026.
IAUI−13.0%
GLD−13.6%
Paid 5.4% in cash. Price −18.0%.
IAUI −7.7%, GLD −6.0%: total return over the year to Nov 4, 2026.
IAUI−7.7%
GLD−6.0%
Paid 9.8% in cash. Price −16.5%.
IAUI −0.3%, GLD +2.8%: total return over one year to Nov 4, 2026.
IAUI−0.3%
GLD+2.8%
Paid 12.6% in cash. Price −11.6%.
IAUI +11.2%, GLD +20.4%: total return since launch to Nov 4, 2026.
IAUI+11.2%
GLD+20.4%
Paid 18.7% in cash. Price −6.5%.

What it paid

13 distributions · latest Oct 21, 2026
12.6%
Cash paid, 1 year, on its starting price
−0.3%
Total return, 1 year
−3.1 pts
Against GLD
76.0%
Return of capital, latest payout (NEOS estimate)
$0.4827
Last payment (paid monthly), ex-date Oct 21, 2026
Pays monthly.

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Price and total return, 1 year

$46.64+2.8%1 day, priceClose, Nov 4, 2026

Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.

Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error

IAUI returns by window: total return, cash paid and price change
WindowTotal returnCash paidPriceGLDAhead or behind
1M Oct 5 – Nov 4, 2026−2.1%1.0%−3.1%−1.9%−0.2 pts
3M Aug 5 – Nov 4, 2026−4.7%3.0%−7.5%−4.4%−0.3 pts
6M May 6 – Nov 4, 2026−13.0%5.4%−18.0%−13.6%+0.6 pts
YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026−7.7%9.8%−16.5%−6.0%−1.7 pts
1Y Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026−0.3%12.6%−11.6%+2.8%−3.1 pts
Since launch Jun 5, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026+11.2%18.7%−6.5%+20.4%−9.2 pts
Since launch, annualised Jun 5, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026+7.8%––––

Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Jun 2025: no 3 years windows.

Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.

Where the return came from
Price change −3.1%Cash paid +1.0%, reinvested−0.2 pts vs GLD

0.0%

Price change −7.5%Cash paid +3.0%, reinvested−0.3 pts vs GLD

0.0%

Price change −18.0%Cash paid +5.4%, reinvested+0.6 pts vs GLD

0.0%

Price change −11.6%Cash paid +12.6%, reinvested−3.1 pts vs GLD

0.0%

Price change −6.5%Cash paid +18.7%, reinvested−9.2 pts vs GLD

0.0%

18.3
IQ Income ScoreETFIQ Distribution Coverage Score137th of 167 · Nov 4, 2026
0.3 · lowest of 167 income ETFs not writing on a single company99.7 · highest

How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 167 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 100 is best. How it is computed

IAUI paid 12.6% in cash over the year while its total return was −0.3%, so it paid out more than it returned.

total return as a share of the cash paid−2.4% · 18th pct

Money in and out

Monthly data · as of Oct 28, 2026

IAUI: from Oct 6, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026, net $24.9m came in.

12 months
+$496m
Jul 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Jun 2025 to Jun 2026
+$510m
Jun 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings

Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions IAUI files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.

How this is computed

ETFIQ’s daily data for this fund stop on Oct 28, 2026, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is Jun 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for IAUI, back to Jun 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare IAUI with other funds in the flows tool

Month by month, money in and money outJun 2025 to Oct 2026

IAUI, money in and money out each month from Jun 2025 to Oct 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Jun 2025 to Jun 2026 are from IAUI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Jul 2026 to Sep 2026 have no data. Of the 14 months listed, money came in on net in 14 and went out in 0.

Bars for Jun 2025 to Jun 2026 are from IAUI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 14 months listed, money came in on net in 14 and went out in 0.

MonthInOutNet
Oct 2026 ETFIQ, the sum of its days, Oct 6 to Oct 28+$24.9m$0+$24.9m
Jun 2026 SEC Form N-PORT+$34.0m$0+$34.0m
May 2026 SEC Form N-PORT+$54.2m$0+$54.2m
Apr 2026 SEC Form N-PORT+$56.4m$0+$56.4m
Mar 2026 SEC Form N-PORT+$28.5m$0+$28.5m
Feb 2026 SEC Form N-PORT+$37.4m−$15.0m+$22.4m
Jan 2026 SEC Form N-PORT+$55.6m−$2.5m+$53.0m
Dec 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$62.4m$0+$62.4m
Nov 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$38.1m$0+$38.1m
Oct 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$44.8m$0+$44.8m
Sep 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$57.7m$0+$57.7m
Aug 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$24.1m$0+$24.1m
Jul 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$20.7m$0+$20.7m
Jun 2025 SEC Form N-PORT+$13.9m$0+$13.9m

Most recent first.

How this is computed

N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.

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 Oct 28, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.

IAUI key stats

52-week high, daily closes to Nov 4, 2026 (ETFIQ)$64.55 on Mar 2, 2026
52-week low, daily closes to Nov 4, 2026 (ETFIQ)$44.98 on Oct 30, 2026
Close on Nov 4, 2026, within that range (ETFIQ)$46.64, 8% of the way from the low to the high
Beta to its benchmark, 1 year (ETFIQ)0.79, against GLD
R-squared, the same days (ETFIQ)0.94
Beta and R-squared measured over251 daily total returns, Nov 5, 2025 to Nov 4, 2026
Range, beta and R-squared computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.

IAUI return of capital and tax

Return of capital, latest notice (NEOS estimate, Oct 23, 2026)76.0%
Return of capital, distributions paid Jan 23, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 (NEOS estimates)84.5%
Notices behind that number9 of 12 distributions
Return of capital, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025 (annual report, filed Mar 6, 2026)0.0%
Options it writes (holdings as of Jun 30, 2026)Options on ETF shares, which are not Section 1256 contracts
Estimates are NEOS’s Rule 19a-1 notices, made before the fund year closes. The fiscal year number is the annual report’s tax character. Not tax advice. What a 19a-1 estimate is · Income ETFs by return of capital

Trading

as of Nov 4, 2026
Trading · IAUIas of Nov 4, 2026
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Not scored1 of 6 measured · Nov 4, 2026
0 · Hard to tradeIQ Liquidity Score100 · Trades like a giant
Cost for your order · one way, half its 30-day median spread
Premium or discount to NAV, Oct 28 close−0.08%
−0.2%95% of days within ±0.10% · the 1% band is off this scale+0.2%
How to tradeSpread not read.
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IAUI for holders outside the US

US tax withheld on dividends, no treaty30%
Treaty rates on dividends (IRS table, read Oct 30, 2026)65 countries, 10% to 30%
IAUI interest-related and short-term gain dividendsnot read by ETFIQ
US estate tax filing threshold, non-resident holders$60,000
Share classDistributing

IAUI is a US fund. Stock of US corporations counts as US property for a non-resident's estate. Facts from the IRS, not tax advice. How withholding and treaties work
Oct 2025Monthly, per shareOct 2026

13 distributions for IAUI, $0.4827 to $0.6202 a share and $0.5706 in the middle, Oct 22, 2025 to Oct 21, 2026. 2 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.

Latest
$0.4827
Ex Oct 21, 2026 · paid about 2 days later
Annualized
12.4%
At its price on Nov 4, 2026
Trailing 12 months
14.3%
12 payments, ex Nov 26, 2025 to Oct 21, 2026: $6.652
Return of capital
76.0%
Latest payout (NEOS estimate)
Next, projected

IAUI pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.4827 a share, which went ex on Oct 21, 2026, with payment about 2 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 28 days the ex-date falls near Nov 18, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.

Nov 18, 2026 · pay Nov 20, 2026$0.4827 ETFIQ projection
Dec 16, 2026 · pay Dec 18, 2026$0.4827 ETFIQ projection

Expected distributions for IAUI. 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.

Every distribution ETFIQ holds for IAUI (13, most recent first)
Oct 21, 2026$0.4827
Sep 16, 2026$0.5011
Aug 19, 2026$0.5182
Jul 22, 2026$0.4855
Jun 16, 2026$0.5129
May 20, 2026$0.5551
Apr 22, 2026$0.5861
Mar 18, 2026$0.6129
Feb 18, 2026$0.6202
Jan 21, 2026$0.6092
Dec 24, 2025$0.5975
Nov 26, 2025$0.5706
Oct 22, 2025$0.5807

Cash distributions per share for IAUI. 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?

Total return as a share of the cash paid
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−272.3% to 2,333.3% across 167

That is the share of the 167 income ETFs not writing on a single company sitting at or below IAUI.

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: −2.4% · 18th pct, −272.3% to 2,333.3% across 167.

Covered the mostOne bar per fund · IAUI in whiteCovered the least

About IAUI

Strategyoption income
BenchmarkGold (GLD)
How the benchmark is set (ETFIQ)Its options are written on GLD, by its holdings of Nov 2, 2026.
Paysmonthly
Net assets (issuer page, as of Oct 28, 2026)$658mReport
Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ)12.4%
Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Apr 30, 2026)0.79%Report
Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ)14.3%
First tradedJun 5, 2025
Return of capital, latest distribution (NEOS 19a-1 estimate)76.0%
Paysmonthly
Typical gap between ex-dates28 days
Typical wait from ex-date to payment2 days
Last paid, per share$0.4827 ex Oct 21, 2026
Cash paid in the 12 months to Nov 4, 2026, 12 distributions, ex Nov 26, 2025 to Oct 21, 2026$6.652
How we measure
Every number 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. Method
IQ Investment Committee on IAUI

12 seats on IAUI, as of Nov 4, 2026: 7 Challenges, 5 Not enough data.

In the tradition ofJohn BogleBogle-style Low CostChallenges
In the tradition ofBenjamin GrahamGraham-style Margin of SafetyNot enough data
In the tradition ofWarren Buffett & Charlie MungerBuffett & Munger-style QualityNot enough data
In the tradition ofPeter LynchLynch-style Growth at a Reasonable PriceNot enough data
In the tradition ofJohn TempletonTempleton-style Global ContrarianNot enough data
In the tradition ofRay DalioDalio-style All-WeatherChallenges
In the tradition ofHoward MarksMarks-style Cycles & RiskNot enough data
In the tradition ofStanley DruckenmillerDruckenmiller-style Macro & LiquidityChallenges
In the tradition ofDavid SwensenSwensen-style DiversificationChallenges
In the tradition ofCathie WoodWood-style Disruptive InnovationChallenges
In the tradition ofJesse LivermoreLivermore-style Trend FollowingChallenges
Uses ETFIQ’s measuresThe ETFIQ SkepticETFIQ’s own seatChallenges
Put IAUI to the committee →See all seats →No investor named is affiliated with or endorses ETFIQ. Not investment advice.

Questions people ask about IAUI

How much has IAUI paid over the last year?
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, IAUI paid 12.6% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 11.6%.
Is IAUI ahead of GLD?
Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, IAUI returned −0.3% against +2.8% for Gold (GLD), so a holder was behind it by 3.1 points.
How often does IAUI pay, and how much?
IAUI pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 12.4% at its price on Nov 4, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
Is the IAUI distribution return of capital?
NEOS estimates 76% of the distribution paid Oct 23, 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 IAUI next pay a distribution?
IAUI pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 21, 2026 at $0.4827 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 28 days the ex-date falls near Nov 18, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
What does IAUI cost?
The prospectus expense ratio is 0.79% a year.
How much of IAUI’s distribution is return of capital?
NEOS’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 76.0% of the distribution paid Oct 23, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Jan 23, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026, the estimate is 84.5%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025 puts it at 0.0% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
Sources and dates
Prices, IAUI and GLDTiingo end-of-day · Nov 4, 2026
Net assets, $658mIssuer page · Oct 28, 2026
DistributionsTiingo end-of-day · 13 payments

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