Ranked by net assets, as of . Rebuilt every trading night.
The largest ETFs that pay monthly
Cash paid and total return are different questions. A fund can lead the first column and trail the last one, and several here do.
| # | Ticker | Fund | Net assets | Cash paid, 1Y | Total return, 1Y | Against its benchmark | Pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JEPI | JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF | $44.7bn | 8.0% | +7.2% | −10.3 pts | monthly |
| 2 | JEPQ | JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ET | $40.7bn | 12.0% | +18.9% | −4.1 pts | monthly |
| 3 | QQQI | NEOS Nasdaq-100(R) High Income ETF | $13.1bn | 14.2% | +16.9% | −6.1 pts | monthly |
| 4 | SPYI | NEOS S&P 500(R) High Income ETF | $10.4bn | 12.1% | +15.8% | −1.7 pts | monthly |
| 5 | QYLD | Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF | $8.3bn | 12.5% | +22.2% | −0.7 pts | monthly |
| 6 | DIVO | Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF | $7.2bn | 6.8% | +16.3% | −1.2 pts | monthly |
| 7 | GPIQ | Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premium Income | $5.1bn | 11.1% | +21.9% | −1.1 pts | monthly |
| 8 | GPIX | Goldman Sachs S&P 500 Premium Income ETF | $4.7bn | 8.8% | +17.5% | 0.0 pts | monthly |
| 9 | KNG | FT Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Tar | $3.4bn | 8.4% | +7.8% | −1.6 pts | monthly |
| 10 | XYLD | Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF | $3.1bn | 11.0% | +17.9% | −1.2 pts | monthly |
| 11 | RDVI | FT Vest Rising Dividend Achievers Target | $3.1bn | 8.9% | +21.6% | −6.0 pts | monthly |
| 12 | FTHI | First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF | $2.4bn | 8.9% | +10.5% | −7.0 pts | monthly |
| 13 | TLTW | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite | $2.0bn | 9.6% | −1.0% | +5.4 pts | monthly |
| 14 | CSHI | NEOS Enhanced Income 1-3 Month T-Bill ET | $1.4bn | 5.2% | +5.0% | +1.3 pts | monthly |
| 15 | RYLD | Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF | $1.3bn | 12.3% | +18.1% | −3.1 pts | monthly |
Method
Every fund here distributes monthly. ETFIQ measures 167 of them, of which 165 publish net assets. Across the funds listed here the cash paid over the last year runs from 5.2% to 14.2%. Size is not a measure of anything a fund did. It is where the money is. The ranking is the published field sorted, nothing else: no scoring, no weighting and no view on any fund. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, including funds that have closed, because leaving them out would flatter the category.
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