MSTY Dividend Calculator

On today’s share basis, MSTY paid $137.553 across nine monthly payments in 2024 and $87.2054 in 2025, which is 36.6% less. The fall sped up in 2026. From January 1 to September 24 it paid $12.2478, against $71.848 over the same days of 2025, a drop of 83.0%.

Each 2026 payment has been between $0.1549 and $0.5553 per share. The 13 most recent, from July 2 to September 24, 2026, added up to $2.952.

YieldMax declares each MSTY payment on a Wednesday. The ex-dividend date is Thursday and the cash arrives on Friday. In weeks with a market holiday, the pay day moves to the next business day, and in New Year’s week of 2026 the ex-date moved to Friday, January 2.

So the “MSTY dividend announcement today” comes out on Wednesdays. To get that week’s payment, you must own the shares by the close on Wednesday. Nobody knows the amount before it is declared, so any MSTY dividend prediction is only a guess.

MSTY did a 1-for-5 reverse split after the market closed on December 5, 2025. Every five shares became one, and trading on the new basis began on December 8. Data sites multiply older payments by five so that all years are measured per share of MSTY today.

For example, MSTY paid $0.1352 per share on November 28, 2025, which is $0.676 on today’s basis. Its first payment, in April 2024, was $4.1286 per share at the time, or $20.643 today. A holder’s actual cash did not change; the split only changed the share count.

MSTY is an actively managed YieldMax fund built around one stock, Strategy Inc (MSTR). It sells call spreads on MSTR and pays out the option premiums each week. YieldMax says the aim is to turn MSTR’s price swings into weekly income while keeping some share of MSTR’s gains.

The more MSTR’s price moves, the more those options are worth. When MSTR falls or trades more calmly, the fund’s share price and its weekly income both tend to shrink. Because it depends on a single company, MSTY can swing much more than a fund that holds many stocks.

A lot, by YieldMax’s own estimates. For 24 of the 39 payments in 2026, it estimated that at least 90% was return of capital. Six payments were estimated at 0%, and the other nine fell in between.

Return of capital is not taxed when you receive it, but it lowers your cost basis, so you may owe more tax when you sell. The weekly figures are estimates; your Form 1099-DIV shows the final breakdown for the year.

As of Oct 13, 2026, MSTY’s trailing yield was about 148.70%, based on $23.11 per share paid over the past year. It looks back a full year, so older and larger payments still count in it.

YieldMax put the distribution rate at 100.32% on September 23, 2026. That figure annualizes the latest weekly payment and divides it by the fund’s net asset value. The 30-day SEC yield was 1.74% on August 31, 2026, because it counts only dividends and interest after costs, not option income.

The recent pace sits in between. The last 13 payments ($2.952) times four is $11.808 a year, about 70% of the $16.83 net asset value on September 24, 2026. That is a pace, not a promise.

From its start on February 21, 2024 to August 31, 2026, MSTY returned 22.72% a year at net asset value with payouts included, a little more than the S&P 500’s 20.24% a year.

The latest year looks very different. In the 12 months to August 31, 2026, MSTY lost 54.35% while the S&P 500 gained 20.38%, and it was down 11.57% for 2026 up to that date. Past returns do not tell you what comes next.

Using the trailing 148.70% yield, $12,000 a year would take about $8,070 of MSTY. At the pace of the last 13 payments, it would take roughly $17,100.

Both numbers assume payments hold steady, and MSTY’s have been falling. Try a lower yield in the income calculator above to see a more careful range.

Full name: YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF. Start date: February 21, 2024. Exchange: NYSE Arca. The gross expense ratio of 1.03% costs $103 a year for each $10,000 invested, and net assets stood at $1.11 billion on September 24, 2026.

As of Oct 13, 2026, MSTY yields about 148.70%, having distributed $23.11 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $0.2445 per share, which went ex-dividend on Oct 8, 2026 and paid on Oct 9, 2026.

Because MSTY pays a variable weekly distribution, the amount changes every period — its recent payments have ranged from $0.2105 to $0.3421 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, MSTY 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.

MSTY uses a synthetic covered-call strategy on MicroStrategy (MSTR) to generate an extremely high weekly distribution. It is one of the highest-yielding and most volatile income products available: the payout varies enormously week to week and the share price is prone to severe erosion. This is a very high-risk, speculative income fund — set the price-growth input cautiously (often negative) when modelling it.

MSTY is a covered-call income etf from YieldMax that distributes weekly. Because dividend investing is about both income and the growth of that income, the calculator above lets you model three things independently for MSTY: 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.