MEIB Direxion META Defined Income Boost ETF
Option income on META, paying monthly
Since its launch on Jul 29, 2026, MEIB paid 2.4% in cash and finished 0.8 points ahead of META.
Key facts
What a holder got
Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, MEIB returned +14.5% with distributions reinvested and (META) returned +13.7%, so a holder came out ahead of it by 0.8 points. The lighter segment is the 2.4% that arrived as cash rather than as price.
Period by period
| Window | Cash paid | Price | Total return | META | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since launch | 2.4% | +11.9% | +14.5% | +13.7% | +0.8 pts |
When MEIB pays
MEIB pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.2245 a share, which went ex on Sep 15, 2026, with payment about 2 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 16 days the ex-date falls near Oct 1, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | $0.2245 | ETFIQ projection |
| Oct 19, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | $0.2245 | ETFIQ projection |
Every distribution ETFIQ holds for MEIB (3, most recent first)
| Ex-date | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | $0.2245 |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $0.1604 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | $0.204 |
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In plain words
Since it launched on Jul 29, 2026, MEIB has returned +14.5% with distributions reinvested, against +13.7% for (META), and has paid out 2.4% of its starting value in cash along the way. It pays monthly, and at its current price the latest distribution annualizes to 9.8%. 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.
| Strategy | option income |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | (META) |
| Pays | monthly |
| Net assets (issuer page, as of Sep 17, 2026) | $2m |
| Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ) | 9.8% |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Jul 21, 2026) | 0.97% |
| Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ) | 2.1% |
| Launched | Jul 29, 2026 |
| Pays | monthly |
| Typical gap between ex-dates | 16 days |
| Typical wait from ex-date to payment | 2 days |
| Last paid, per share | $0.2245 ex Sep 15, 2026 |
| Sum of the last 3 distributions | $0.589 |
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 MEIB paid over the last year?
- Over the period from its launch on Jul 29, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026, MEIB paid 2.4% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price rose 11.9%.
- Is MEIB ahead of META?
- Over the period from its launch on Jul 29, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, MEIB returned +14.5% against +13.7% for (META), so a holder was ahead of it by 0.8 points.
- How often does MEIB pay, and how much?
- MEIB pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 9.8% at its price on Sep 18, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- When does MEIB next pay a distribution?
- MEIB pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Sep 15, 2026 at $0.2245 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 16 days the ex-date falls near Oct 1, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
- What does MEIB cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.97% 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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