LQDW iShares LQD Premium Income+ ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, LQDW paid 11.2% in cash and returned 1.2% in total, against −3.4% for LQD.
Promise check: MissedOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, LQDW paid 11.2% in cash and returned 1.2% in total, covering 10.7% of its payout.
LQDW risk and return scorecard
vs LQD · Sep 2022 to Oct 2026 · 216 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 · Oct 23, 2026What changed
IQ findings, 30 days to Oct 29, 2026LQDW filed on Oct 15, 2026 to change its name from iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF to iShares LQD Premium Income+ ETF.
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What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 2, 2026More on LQDW
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$22.850.0%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 | LQD | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | +2.0% | 1.7% | +0.3% | +2.0% | 0.0 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.6% | 3.1% | −2.6% | −0.8% | +1.4 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.6% | 5.3% | −4.8% | −2.0% | +2.6 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.1% | 8.0% | −6.9% | −2.2% | +3.3 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.2% | 11.2% | −10.0% | −3.4% | +4.6 pts |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +16.2% | 38.2% | −24.9% | +19.6% | −3.4 pts |
| Since launch Aug 22, 2022 – Oct 28, 2026 | +9.6% | 47.3% | −42.4% | +12.5% | −2.9 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Aug 22, 2022 – Oct 28, 2026 | +2.2% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
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
LQDW paid 11.2% in cash over the year and returned 1.2% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 23, 2026LQDW: in the year to Oct 23, 2026, net $100m came in; in the month to Oct 23, 2026, $13.1m came in.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
LQDW, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 11 days and went out on 1 day.
Money in on 11 of the 63 trading days, out on 1.
LQDW, net flow each trading day over the 249 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 43 days and went out on 14 days.
Money in on 43 of the 249 trading days, out on 14.
LQDW, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 24, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 88 days and went out on 16 days.
Money in on 88 of the 400 trading days, out on 16.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value.
How this is computed
Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Checked against the filing: The month’s daily sum and the filing’s B.6 number agree within rounding or, where the filing’s is larger, within rounding plus the fund’s creation and redemption fees. The full rule is in the fund’s flows file. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for LQDW, back to Aug 2022, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare LQDW with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months63 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year52 weeks
Net flow into LQDW each week, Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2023 to Oct 2026
LQDW, money in and money out each month from Nov 2023 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Nov 2023 to Jul 2026 are from LQDW’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 27 and went out in 8.
Bars for Nov 2023 to Jul 2026 are from LQDW’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Aug 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 27 and went out in 8.
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 daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 23, 2026.
LQDW key stats
LQDW return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 28, 2026
13 distributions for LQDW, $0.1546 to $0.3815 a share and $0.2178 in the middle, Oct 2, 2025 to Oct 2, 2026. 2 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
LQDW pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.3815 a share, which went ex on Oct 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for LQDW. 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 LQDW. 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 LQDW.
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: 10.7% · 24th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
LQDW top ten by weight, 1.5% of the fund, of its 3,195 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. The options the fund writes are not positions of this kind and are not listed. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: iShares’s daily holdings file. Data as of Oct 27, 2026. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 28, 2026.
About LQDW
How we measure
12 seats on LQDW, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Mixed, 4 Challenges, 7 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about LQDW
- How much has LQDW paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, LQDW paid 11.2% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 10.0%.
- Is LQDW ahead of LQD?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, LQDW returned +1.2% against −3.4% for US investment grade bonds (LQD), so a holder was ahead of it by 4.6 points.
- How often does LQDW pay, and how much?
- LQDW pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 20.0% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the LQDW distribution return of capital?
- iShares estimates 64% of the distribution paid Oct 7, 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 LQDW next pay a distribution?
- LQDW pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 2, 2026 at $0.3815 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 30 days the ex-date falls near Nov 2, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
- What does LQDW cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.34% a year.
- How much of LQDW’s distribution is return of capital?
- iShares’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 64.0% of the distribution paid Oct 7, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Nov 7, 2025 to Oct 7, 2026, the estimate is 46.5%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Oct 31, 2025 puts it at 72.7% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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