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Income · ranked by total return minus what IWM returned, in points, one year

Every income ETF measured against IWM

FTKI leads every income ETF measured against IWM at +5.1 pts (ahead or behind, one year), as of Oct 27, 2026. 9 funds ranked by total return minus what IWM returned, in points, one year. 9 funds are measured against Russell 2000 (IWM). Ahead means a holder ended with more than holding IWM would have given them, cash included, over the same days.

Ahead or behind, one bar per fund
firstgreen above zero, coral belowlast
+5.1 pts
first, FTKI
−8.7 pts
last, IWMY
9
funds in the list

All 9, highest first

9 of 9 · click a column to sort

Points (pts) are percentage points.

Every income ETF measured against IWM
#TickerFundAhead or behind ↓Total returnIWM returnedCash paidFee
1FTKIFirst Trust Small Cap BuyWrite Income ETF+5.1 pts+18.2%+13.1%12.4%0.86%
2ITWOProShares Russell 2000 High Income ETF+2.4 pts+15.5%+13.1%8.0%0.55%
3IWMINEOS Russell 2000 High Income ETF+1.2 pts+14.3%+13.1%14.7%0.68%
4RDTERoundhill Russell 2000 0DTE Covered Call Str−0.1 pts+13.0%+13.1%33.3%0.97%
5RDTYYieldMax R2000 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ET−0.3 pts+12.8%+13.1%33.7%1.73%
6RYLGGlobal X Russell 2000 Covered Call & Growth−1.0 pts+12.1%+13.1%10.5%0.35%
7RYLDGlobal X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF−1.6 pts+11.5%+13.1%12.0%0.60%
8IWMWiShares IWM Premium Income+ ETF−4.0 pts+9.1%+13.1%18.1%0.39%
9IWMYDefiance R2000 Weekly Distribution ETF−8.7 pts+4.4%+13.1%28.1%1.05%
As of Oct 27, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.CSVMethod
Cash paid against total return, top 9
FTKI
ITWO
IWMI
RDTE
RDTY
RYLG
RYLD
IWMW
IWMY
Cash paid, % of starting priceTotal return, same scaleNegative total return

Where the marker sits left of the bar's end, the fund paid out more than it made.

Method

Every fund here is measured against 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.

The rest of the method

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 list sorts one published number, with no scoring or weighting. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, closed funds included.

Where to next
Sources and dates
Rule 19a-1 distribution notices and prospectus filings on SEC EDGARsec.gov ↗
SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filingsefts.sec.gov ↗
SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holdssec.gov ↗
Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must sayecfr.gov ↗

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