Ranked by total return minus what the thing it writes on returned, in points, one year, as of . Rebuilt every trading night.
Every income ETF that writes on IWM
9 funds write on Russell 2000 (IWM). Ahead means a holder ended with more than holding IWM would have given them, cash included, over the same days.
| # | Ticker | Fund | Ahead or behind | Total return | IWM returned | Cash paid | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ITWO | ProShares Russell 2000 High Income ETF | +2.5 pts | +23.7% | +21.2% | 8.6% | 0.55% |
| 2 | IWMI | NEOS Russell 2000 High Income ETF | +0.3 pts | +21.5% | +21.2% | 14.9% | 0.68% |
| 3 | RDTE | Roundhill Russell 2000 0DTE Covered Call Str | −1.3 pts | +20.0% | +21.2% | 35.3% | 0.97% |
| 4 | RYLG | Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call & Growth | −1.8 pts | +19.4% | +21.2% | 11.1% | 0.35% |
| 5 | RDTY | YieldMax(R) R2000 0DTE Covered Call Strategy | −2.6 pts | +18.6% | +21.2% | 34.8% | 1.73% |
| 6 | RYLD | Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF | −3.1 pts | +18.1% | +21.2% | 12.3% | 0.60% |
| 7 | FTKI | First Trust Small Cap BuyWrite Income ETF | −3.9 pts | +17.3% | +21.2% | 12.1% | 0.86% |
| 8 | IWMW | iShares Russell 2000 BuyWrite ETF | −5.8 pts | +15.4% | +21.2% | 19.1% | 0.39% |
| 9 | IWMY | Defiance R2000 Weekly Distribution ETF | −12.0 pts | +9.3% | +21.2% | 30.7% | 1.05% |
Method
Every fund here sells options on IWM, so they can be compared with each other on the one thing that separates them: what a holder finished with against simply holding IWM. Cash paid is not that. A fund can lead this category on cash and sit at the bottom of this table, which is the whole reason the measure exists. 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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Cite this page. ETFIQ, Every income ETF that writes on IWM, ranked by total return minus what the thing it writes on returned, in points, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/income-on-iwm Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.