QYLG Dividend Calculator

The ticker QYLG belongs to the Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call & Growth ETF. It owns the stocks of the Nasdaq-100 and sells call options on about half of the portfolio. The option sales bring in cash. Global X says this keeps roughly half of the Nasdaq-100’s upside.

That is the key difference from QYLD, which writes calls on its whole portfolio. QYLG launched on September 18, 2020, and charges 0.35% a year. It held $188.62 million on October 15, 2026. Nvidia (8.08%), Apple (7.70%) and Microsoft (6.18%) led its holdings.

In 2025 and 2026, the monthly checks ranged from about $0.13 to $0.28 a share. Without the extras, those regular checks added up to $1.5283 in 2022 and $2.1087 in 2025.

Three times it has paid a much larger amount on December 30: $1.6035 in 2021, $5.2983 in 2024 and $2.7779 in 2025. Those extras are why the yearly total jumps to $7.0971 in 2024 and $4.8866 in 2025. This page could not find Global X’s explanation of these extras, and its own table leaves out the 2025 one, so treat the yearly totals with care.

Nine monthly payments through September total $1.6324 per share. That is about 14.1% more than the same nine months of 2025. The smallest was $0.1398 in September and the largest $0.2679 in July.

Global X estimates that most of these payouts are return of capital, meaning part of your own money handed back rather than earned income. For the September payment it put that share at 93.47%. For the fiscal year to date it estimated 95.81% of $2.0704.

In the 12 months to Oct 13, 2026, QYLG paid $5.09 a share, a trailing yield of about 16.61% on a price near $30.64. That figure includes the December 2025 extra.

Global X’s distribution rate, which annualizes only the latest monthly check, was much lower: 5.44% on October 15, 2026. That rate reflects what a typical month pays.

QYLG goes ex near the 20th of each month and pays three days later.

Keeping half the upside has helped in strong markets. Counting payouts, QYLG returned 23.54% over the year to September 30, 2026, 22.57% a year over three years and 12.91% over five. Since its 2020 launch it averaged 14.91% a year.

Its index, which has no fees, did slightly better. Tech makes up most of the fund: 60.58% on September 30, 2026.

QYLD sells calls on all of its Nasdaq-100 stocks, so it brings in more option cash but gives up more upside. QYLG covers half. QYLD charges 0.60% a year; QYLG charges 0.35%. Trailing yields on Oct 13, 2026 were about 16.61% for QYLG, with its year-end extra, and 11.41% for QYLD.

As of Oct 13, 2026, QYLG yields about 16.61%, having distributed $5.09 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $0.1398 per share, which went ex-dividend on Sep 21, 2026 and paid on Sep 24, 2026.

Because QYLG pays a variable monthly distribution, the amount changes every period — its recent payments have ranged from $0.1398 to $0.2679 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, QYLG 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.

QYLG owns the Nasdaq-100 and writes call options on roughly half of the portfolio, tracking the Cboe Nasdaq-100 Half BuyWrite V2 Index and paying monthly. Covering only half the portfolio gives it a lower yield than a full covered-call fund like QYLD but leaves more room for share-price growth.

QYLG is a covered-call income etf from Global X 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 QYLG: 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.