PCOV Principal Equity Premium Income ETF
Covered call on SPY
Since its launch on Aug 19, 2026, PCOV paid no cash and finished 1.8 points behind SPY.
Key facts
What a holder got
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, PCOV returned −2.4% with distributions reinvested and S&P 500 (SPY) returned −0.6%, so a holder came out behind it by 1.8 points. The lighter segment is the 0.0% that arrived as cash rather than as price.
Period by period
| Window | Cash paid | Price | Total return | SPY | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since launch | 0.0% | −2.4% | −2.4% | −0.6% | −1.8 pts |
In plain words
Since it launched on Aug 19, 2026, PCOV has returned −2.4% with distributions reinvested, against −0.6% 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.
| Strategy | covered call |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | S&P 500 (SPY) |
| Pays | not established |
| Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ) | not published |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Jun 30, 2026) | 0.34% |
| Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ) | 0.0% |
| Launched | Aug 19, 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 PCOV paid over the last year?
- Over the period from its launch on Aug 19, 2026 to Sep 11, 2026, PCOV paid 0.0% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 2.4%.
- Is PCOV ahead of SPY?
- Over the period from its launch on Aug 19, 2026 to Sep 11, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, PCOV returned −2.4% against −0.6% for S&P 500 (SPY), so a holder was behind it by 1.8 points.
- What does PCOV cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.34% 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, PCOV, income ETFs, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/pcov Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.