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JANQ Innovator Premium Income 40 Barrier ETF - January

Defined income on SPY

Since its launch on Sep 10, 2026, JANQ paid no cash and finished 0.8 points behind SPY.

Innovator · Income ETFs · data as of

Key facts

0.0%Cash paid, since launch, on its starting price
0.0%Total return, since launch
−0.8 ptsAgainst SPY
not publishedLatest payout, annualized

Method

What a holder got

JANQ against SPYJANQ returned 0.0% with distributions reinvested against +0.8% for S&P 500 (SPY), a gap of −0.8 pts. Of that, 0.0% arrived as cash rather than price.0.0%JANQ total return+0.8%S&P 500 (SPY)

Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, JANQ returned 0.0% with distributions reinvested and S&P 500 (SPY) returned +0.8%, so a holder came out behind it by 0.8 points. The lighter segment is the 0.0% that arrived as cash rather than as price.

Method

Period by period

JANQ over each window to Sep 18, 2026. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation. Source: ETFIQ.
WindowCash paidPriceTotal returnSPYAhead or behind
Since launch0.0%0.0%0.0%+0.8%−0.8 pts

Method

In plain words

Since it launched on Sep 10, 2026, JANQ has returned 0.0% with distributions reinvested, against +0.8% for S&P 500 (SPY), and has paid out 0.0% of its starting value in cash along the way. 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.

JANQ (Innovator Premium Income 40 Barrier ETF - January), income ETFs fields as of Sep 18, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Strategydefined income
BenchmarkS&P 500 (SPY)
Paysnot established
Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ)not published
Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Jan 2, 2024)0.79%
Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ)0.0%
LaunchedSep 10, 2026

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 JANQ paid over the last year?
Over the period from its launch on Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026, JANQ paid 0.0% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price rose 0.0%.
Is JANQ ahead of SPY?
Over the period from its launch on Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, JANQ returned 0.0% against +0.8% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was behind it by 0.8 points.
What does JANQ cost?
The prospectus expense ratio is 0.79% 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

ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure. It is not affiliated with any issuer, and a link is not an endorsement.

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Where JANQ is written about

JANQ, Income ETFs, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 18, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, is not a fund issuer, broker-dealer or investment adviser, and makes no recommendations.
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Cite this page. ETFIQ, JANQ, income ETFs, data as of Sep 18, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/janq Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.

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