IWMY Defiance R2000 Weekly Distribution ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, IWMY paid 28.2% in cash and returned 5.2% in total, against 14.1% for IWM.
Promise check: MissedOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, IWMY paid 28.2% in cash and returned 5.2% in total, covering 18.4% of its payout.
IWMY risk and return scorecard
vs IWM · Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 · 154 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 · May 31, 2026What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 22, 2026More on IWMY
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$16.79+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 | IWM | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −0.4% | 2.3% | −2.7% | +0.5% | −0.9 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −3.4% | 7.2% | −10.4% | −2.3% | −1.1 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.7% | 14.7% | −12.5% | +3.9% | −2.2 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +8.6% | 23.5% | −14.8% | +15.0% | −6.4 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +5.2% | 28.2% | −23.5% | +14.1% | −8.9 pts |
| Since launch Oct 31, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +39.2% | 92.6% | −72.3% | +76.8% | −37.6 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Oct 31, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +11.7% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Oct 2023: no 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
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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
IWMY paid 28.2% in cash over the year and returned 5.2% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of May 31, 2026IWMY: in the month to May 31, 2026, net $985k went out, by its SEC filing.
Jun 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions IWMY 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 May 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for IWMY, back to Oct 2023, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare IWMY with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outOct 2023 to May 2026
IWMY, money in and money out each month from Oct 2023 to May 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from IWMY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 32 months listed, money came in on net in 21 and went out in 11.
Every bar is from IWMY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 32 months listed, money came in on net in 21 and went out in 11.
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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 May 31, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
IWMY key stats
IWMY return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
13 distributions for IWMY, $0.096 to $0.1119 a share and $0.1051 in the middle, Jul 30, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. 6 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
IWMY pays weekly. The last distribution was $0.096 a share, which went ex on Oct 22, 2026, with payment about 1 day later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 7 days the ex-date falls near Oct 29, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for IWMY. 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.
Cash distributions per share for IWMY. 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 IWMY.
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: 18.4% · 26th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
About IWMY
How we measure
12 seats on IWMY, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Mixed, 4 Challenges, 6 Not enough data, 1 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about IWMY
- How much has IWMY paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, IWMY paid 28.2% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 23.5%.
- Is IWMY ahead of IWM?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, IWMY returned +5.2% against +14.1% for Russell 2000 (IWM), so a holder was behind it by 8.9 points.
- How often does IWMY pay, and how much?
- IWMY pays weekly. The latest distribution annualizes to 29.7% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the IWMY distribution return of capital?
- Defiance estimates 11% of the distribution paid Oct 16, 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 IWMY next pay a distribution?
- IWMY pays weekly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 22, 2026 at $0.096 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 7 days the ex-date falls near Oct 29, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 1 day.
- What does IWMY cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.05% a year.
- How much of IWMY’s distribution is return of capital?
- Defiance’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 10.6% of the distribution paid Oct 16, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Nov 7, 2025 to Oct 16, 2026, the estimate is 72.9%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Aug 31, 2025 puts it at 85.4% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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