OEI Optimized Equity Income ETF
Option income on SPY, paying monthly
Since its launch on Oct 22, 2025, OEI paid 7.8% in cash and finished level with SPY.
Key facts
What a holder got
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, OEI returned +15.1% with distributions reinvested and S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy returned +15.4%, so a holder came out level with it. The lighter segment is the 7.8% that arrived as cash rather than as price.
Its ten largest equity positions
| Holding | Ticker | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp | NVDA | 8.29% | |
| Apple Inc | AAPL | 6.92% | |
| Microsoft Corp | MSFT | 5.28% | |
| Amazon.com Inc | AMZN | 4.47% | |
| Alphabet Inc | GOOGL | 3.77% | |
| Broadcom Inc | AVGO | 3.27% | |
| Alphabet Inc | GOOG | 3.00% | |
| Meta Platforms Inc | META | 2.40% | |
| Exxon Mobil Corp | XOM | 2.06% | |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 1.89% |
Period by period
| Window | Cash paid | Price | Total return | SPY | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | 2.4% | +4.0% | +6.5% | +3.3% | +3.1 pts |
| 6 months | 4.8% | +6.5% | +11.6% | +16.0% | −4.4 pts |
| Since launch | 7.8% | +6.7% | +15.1% | +15.4% | −0.3 pts |
When OEI pays
OEI pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.2 a share, which went ex on Aug 20, 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 Sep 17, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | $0.2 | ETFIQ projection from the fund’s own cadence |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | $0.2 | ETFIQ projection from the fund’s own cadence |
Every distribution ETFIQ holds for OEI (10, most recent first)
| Ex-date | Amount |
|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2026 | $0.2 |
| Jul 23, 2026 | $0.2 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | $0.2 |
| May 21, 2026 | $0.2 |
| Apr 23, 2026 | $0.2 |
| Mar 19, 2026 | $0.2 |
| Feb 19, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Nov 19, 2025 | $0.1349 |
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In plain words
Since it launched on Oct 22, 2025, OEI has returned +15.1% with distributions reinvested, against +15.4% for S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy, and has paid out 7.8% of its starting value in cash along the way. It pays monthly, and at its current price the latest distribution annualizes to 9.0%. 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 | S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy (proxy) |
| Pays | monthly |
| Net assets (SEC filing, whole fund, as filed for Apr 30, 2026) | $42m |
| Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ) | 9.0% |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Aug 26, 2026) | 1.02% |
| Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ) | 7.3% |
| Launched | Oct 22, 2025 |
| Pays | monthly |
| Typical gap between ex-dates | 28 days |
| Typical wait from ex-date to payment | 2 days |
| Last paid, per share | $0.2 ex Aug 20, 2026 |
| Sum of the last 10 distributions | $1.9349 |
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 OEI paid over the last year?
- Over the period from its launch on Oct 22, 2025 to Sep 11, 2026, OEI paid 7.8% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price rose 6.7%.
- Is OEI ahead of SPY?
- Over the period from its launch on Oct 22, 2025 to Sep 11, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, OEI returned +15.1% against +15.4% for S&P 500 (SPY), used as a default proxy, so a holder was about even with it by 0.3 points.
- How often does OEI pay, and how much?
- OEI pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 9.0% at its price on Sep 11, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- When does OEI next pay a distribution?
- OEI pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Aug 20, 2026 at $0.2 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 28 days the ex-date falls near Sep 17, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 2 days.
- What does OEI cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.02% 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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Cite this page. ETFIQ, OEI, income ETFs, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/oei Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.