TSLY YieldMax(R) TSLA Option Income Strategy ETF
Synthetic covered call on TSLA, paying weekly
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, TSLY paid 53.2% in cash and finished 4.8 points ahead of TSLA.
Key facts
ETFIQ Return Stability Score
69.7joint 10th of 61
TSLY paid 53.2% in cash. Its price fell 44.2%, so 83% of what you were paid came back out of your own capital.
Was the payout funded by returns, or by your own capital?
86.1% of the 61 sit at or below TSLY on this measure.
53.3% of the 61 sit at or below TSLY on this measure.
Weighted evenly, those two positions are what the score combines, across the 61 income ETFs writing on a single company. Neither spread above is the score: a fund can sit further right on one and score lower. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
| What it measures | This fund | Its percentile | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| against its benchmark | +4.8 pts | 86.1 | 50% |
| what happened to the principal | −44.2% | 53.3 | 50% |
1st of 6 income ETFs writing on TSLA, by return against it 35th of 354 income ETFs by net assets
What a holder got
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, TSLY returned +3.9% with distributions reinvested and Tesla (TSLA) returned −0.9%, so a holder came out ahead of it by 4.8 points. The lighter segment is the 53.2% that arrived as cash rather than as price.
Period by period
| Window | Cash paid | Price | Total return | TSLA | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | 10.8% | −20.7% | −9.9% | −10.1% | +0.2 pts |
| 6 months | 22.0% | −28.8% | −7.9% | −6.6% | −1.3 pts |
| 1 year | 53.2% | −44.2% | +3.9% | −0.9% | +4.8 pts |
| 3 years | 83.5% | −84.5% | +19.4% | +36.6% | −17.2 pts |
| Since launch | 97.1% | −88.8% | +38.5% | +99.5% | −61.0 pts |
When TSLY pays
TSLY pays weekly. The last distribution was $0.2153 a share, which went ex on Sep 10, 2026, with payment about 1 day later. The issuer has set the next ex-date at Sep 15, 2026, payable Sep 16, 2026, but has not declared the amount.
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | $0.2153 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Sep 23, 2026 | $0.2153 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | $0.2153 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Oct 7, 2026 | $0.2153 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Oct 14, 2026 | $0.2153 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | $0.2153 | Date set by the issuer, amount not yet declared |
Every distribution ETFIQ holds for TSLY (13, most recent first)
| Ex-date | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | $0.2153 |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $0.2062 |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $0.2135 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | $0.2025 |
| Aug 13, 2026 | $0.1788 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | $0.2296 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | $0.2147 |
| Jul 23, 2026 | $0.2385 |
| Jul 16, 2026 | $0.2593 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | $0.2776 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | $0.2813 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | $0.2667 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | $0.2792 |
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In plain words
Since it launched on Nov 23, 2022, TSLY has returned +38.5% with distributions reinvested, against +99.5% for Tesla (TSLA), and has paid out 97.1% of its starting value in cash along the way. It pays weekly, and at its current price the latest distribution annualizes to 50.0%. YieldMax estimates that 100% of the distribution paid Sep 11, 2026 was a return of capital. That is the issuer’s own Rule 19a-1 estimate and a tax characterization, made before the fund year closes: it says the payment included money the fund gave back rather than earned, not that the fund is eroding.
| Strategy | synthetic covered call |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | Tesla (TSLA) |
| Pays | weekly |
| Net assets (issuer page, as of Sep 11, 2026) | $668m |
| Latest payout, annualized (ETFIQ) | 50.0% |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Feb 24, 2026) | 1.07% |
| Cash paid, last 12 months, over today’s price (ETFIQ) | 95.4% |
| Launched | Nov 23, 2022 |
| Return of capital, latest distribution (YieldMax 19a-1 estimate) | 100.0% |
| Pays | weekly |
| Typical gap between ex-dates | 7 days |
| Typical wait from ex-date to payment | 1 day |
| Last paid, per share | $0.2153 ex Sep 10, 2026 |
| Sum of the last 12 distributions | $2.784 |
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 TSLY paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, TSLY paid 53.2% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 44.2%.
- Is TSLY ahead of TSLA?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, TSLY returned +3.9% against −0.9% for Tesla (TSLA), so a holder was ahead of it by 4.8 points.
- How often does TSLY pay, and how much?
- TSLY pays weekly. The latest distribution annualizes to 50.0% at its price on Sep 11, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the TSLY distribution return of capital?
- YieldMax estimates 100% of the distribution paid Sep 11, 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 TSLY next pay a distribution?
- TSLY pays weekly. The last distribution went ex on Sep 10, 2026 at $0.2153 a share. The issuer has set the next ex-date at Sep 15, 2026 but not the amount.
- What does TSLY cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.07% 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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