TQQY GraniteShares YieldBOOST QQQ ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, TQQY paid 31.8% in cash and lost 4.6% in total, against 15.2% for QQQ.
Promise check: MissedOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, TQQY paid 31.8% in cash and returned −4.6% in total, covering −14.5% of its payout.
TQQY risk and return scorecard
vs QQQ · Mar 2025 to Oct 2026 · 85 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 · Jun 30, 2026What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 23, 2026More on TQQY
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$11.82+0.3%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 | QQQ | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −1.5% | 1.9% | −3.4% | −1.5% | 0.0 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +3.8% | 6.7% | −2.9% | +9.8% | −6.0 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +4.9% | 16.6% | −11.8% | +9.9% | −5.0 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +5.5% | 29.1% | −24.6% | +18.5% | −13.0 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −4.6% | 31.8% | −37.5% | +15.2% | −19.8 pts |
| Since launch Feb 26, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.7% | 49.3% | −52.7% | +42.2% | −41.5 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Feb 26, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.4% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Feb 2025: no 3 years windows.
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
TQQY paid 31.8% in cash over the year while its total return was −4.6%, so it paid out more than it returned.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of Jun 30, 2026TQQY: in the month to Jun 30, 2026, net $1.7m went out, by its SEC filing.
Jul 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions TQQY files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.
How this is computed
ETFIQ reads no daily data for this fund, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is Jun 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for TQQY, back to Jan 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare TQQY with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outJan 2025 to Jun 2026
TQQY, money in and money out each month from Jan 2025 to Jun 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from TQQY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 18 months listed, money came in on net in 10 and went out in 6.
Every bar is from TQQY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 18 months listed, money came in on net in 10 and went out in 6.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions.
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 SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Jun 30, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
TQQY key stats
TQQY return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
13 distributions for TQQY, $0.0565 to $0.0827 a share and $0.0585 in the middle, Jul 31, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026. 6 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
TQQY pays weekly. The last distribution was $0.0576 a share, which went ex on Oct 23, 2026, with payment about 4 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 7 days the ex-date falls near Oct 30, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for TQQY. 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 TQQY. 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 TQQY.
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: −14.5% · 16th pct, −271.3% to 2,166.7% across 164.
About TQQY
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Questions people ask about TQQY
- How much has TQQY paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, TQQY paid 31.8% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 37.5%.
- Is TQQY ahead of QQQ?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, TQQY returned −4.6% against +15.2% for Nasdaq-100 (QQQ), so a holder was behind it by 19.8 points.
- How often does TQQY pay, and how much?
- TQQY pays weekly. The latest distribution annualizes to 25.4% at its price on Oct 28, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the TQQY distribution return of capital?
- GraniteShares estimates 93% of the distribution paid Sep 22, 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 TQQY next pay a distribution?
- TQQY pays weekly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 23, 2026 at $0.0576 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 7 days the ex-date falls near Oct 30, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 4 days.
- What does TQQY cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.15% a year.
- How much of TQQY’s distribution is return of capital?
- GraniteShares’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 93.1% of the distribution paid Sep 22, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid Dec 2, 2025 to Sep 22, 2026, the estimate is 96.2%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Jun 30, 2026 puts it at 96.2% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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