JEPQ Dividend Calculator

Unlike many option-income funds, JEPQ’s yearly payout has gone up every full year so far. Per share, 2023 brought $5.0009, then 2024 rose 8.8% to $5.4433 and 2025 another 12.5% to $6.1227.

The rise has continued in 2026. The first eight payments came to $4.7128, which is 15.7% more than the first eight of 2025 ($4.0717). The August 2026 payment, $0.70497, was the largest in the fund’s history.

Month to month it still varies. In 2026 the smallest payment was $0.46572 in February, and the largest paid about 51% more.

J.P. Morgan publishes its dividend calendar a year ahead. The dates still to come in 2026 are: ex-dividend Dec 1, 2026, paid Dec 3, 2026; ex-dividend Dec 31, 2026, paid Jan 5, 2027.

The pattern is simple. The ex-dividend date is the first business day of each month, and J.P. Morgan declares the amount on the business day before. In 2026 the cash has arrived two business days after each ex-date. December has two ex-dates on the 2026 calendar: one at the start of the month and one on December 31, which pays in early January.

JEPQ holds Nasdaq-100 stocks and also owns equity-linked notes that write out-of-the-money call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. The premiums from those options make up most of the monthly payout. J.P. Morgan says the fund seeks monthly income and Nasdaq-100 exposure with less volatility. Its portfolio managers are Hamilton Reiner and Eric Moreau.

Option premiums are larger when the index swings more. The Nasdaq-100 is heavy in technology and tends to move more than the broader market, which is why JEPQ has paid more than its sister fund, JEPI. When markets are quiet, the premiums and the payments can shrink.

As of Oct 13, 2026, JEPQ’s trailing yield was about 11.30%, from $6.88 per share paid over the last 12 months.

J.P. Morgan showed a 12-month rolling dividend yield of 11.56% on September 25, 2026, and a 30-day SEC yield of 13.32% for August 31, 2026. The rolling yield looks back over a year of payments. The SEC yield annualizes only the latest 30 days of income, so it runs higher when recent income is above the yearly average, as it has been in 2026.

Mostly not. The option income that JEPQ earns through its equity-linked notes is generally taxed as ordinary income, not at the lower qualified-dividend rate. Only a smaller part, from the dividends of the stocks it holds, may qualify.

Each year’s exact split is on your Form 1099-DIV. Held in an IRA or 401(k), the difference does not matter until you take money out.

In the three years to August 31, 2026, JEPQ returned 19.34% a year at net asset value, with payouts reinvested. The Nasdaq-100 returned 24.77% a year. Over one year it was 20.91% against 26.61%, and since JEPQ began on May 3, 2022, it was 16.46% a year against 21.59%.

That gap is the price of the income. Selling call options gives up part of the gains when tech stocks rally hard.

On the trailing 11.30% yield, collecting $12,000 over a year would have taken about $106,195 in JEPQ, or around 1,744 shares at roughly $60.88 each.

Monthly amounts rise and fall, so some months pay less than $1,000 and others more. The calculator above works out the income for any amount you enter.

The JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF started on May 3, 2022 and trades on Nasdaq. It held 109 positions and $43.92 billion in assets on September 25, 2026, and it charges 0.35% a year, or $35 for every $10,000.

As of Oct 13, 2026, JEPQ yields about 11.30%, having distributed $6.88 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $0.5669 per share, which went ex-dividend on Oct 1, 2026 and paid on Oct 5, 2026.

Because JEPQ pays a variable monthly distribution, the amount changes every period — its recent payments have ranged from $0.5644 to $0.705 per share. Treat the headline yield as a record of what was paid, not a promise of future income.

As a covered-call income ETF, JEPQ pairs an above-average yield with limited share-price upside, because option premium is exchanged for capped growth — so set the price-growth input in the calculator above conservatively rather than assuming the yield compounds untouched.

JEPQ applies the same equity-premium-income strategy as JEPI but on a Nasdaq-100-oriented portfolio, writing options for a high monthly payout. It carries more technology exposure and typically a higher distribution than JEPI.

JEPQ is a covered-call income etf from JPMorgan that distributes monthly. Because dividend investing is about both income and the growth of that income, the calculator above lets you model three things independently for JEPQ: the starting yield, how fast the dividend grows each year, and how fast the share price appreciates. That separation matters most for covered-call funds, where a high headline yield often pairs with little or no price growth — so the "stock price growth" input should usually be modest.