RYLD Dividend Calculator

RYLD is the ticker of the Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF. It owns small U.S. companies, mostly through another fund, the Global X Russell 2000 ETF, which made up 99.94% of its assets on October 15, 2026. Each month it also sells one-month call options on the Russell 2000 Index.

Selling those options brings in cash, called premium, and Global X aims to pay income from it every month. The trade-off is that the options cap how much the fund can gain when small stocks rally. RYLD launched on April 17, 2019, charges 0.60% a year, and held $1.31 billion.

The yearly payout peaked in 2021 at $3.0147 a share, 24.0% more than 2020. It then fell four years in a row: by 15.8% in 2022, 16.6% in 2023, 7.1% in 2024 and 6.6% in 2025, when it came to $1.8358.

So far 2026 looks a little better. Nine payments through September add up to $1.4117 per share, about 2.6% more than the same nine months of 2025.

Each check is a different size. In 2026 the smallest was $0.1475 a share, paid in both March and September. The largest was $0.1653 in August. Most months fell between $0.156 and $0.162.

RYLD goes ex-dividend near the 20th of each month, often on a Monday, and pays three days later.

Global X says the payouts may contain return of capital. That means part of the money is your own investment handed back, not income the fund earned. Its notice for the September 2026 payment estimated the whole $0.1475 was return of capital.

For its fiscal year to date, November 2025 to September 2026, the fund paid $1.7186 a share. Global X estimated 94.82% of that was return of capital. These are estimates; the final split shows up on the tax form sent early the next year.

In the 12 months to Oct 13, 2026, RYLD paid $1.87 a share. Against a price of about $15.53, that is a trailing yield near 12.04%. Global X put its distribution rate at 11.28% on October 15, 2026.

A high payout does not mean a high total return. With payouts counted, RYLD returned 15.97% over the year to September 30, 2026, and 9.20% a year over three years. Over five years it returned just 2.66% a year, and 5.47% a year since its 2019 launch.

Check Global X’s distribution page for the next declared amount.

Both are Global X covered-call funds that pay monthly. RYLD writes options on small companies in the Russell 2000. QYLD does the same with the 100 large companies in the Nasdaq-100. Trailing yields on Oct 13, 2026 were about 12.04% for RYLD and 11.41% for QYLD.

As of Oct 13, 2026, RYLD yields about 12.04%, having distributed $1.87 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $0.1475 per share, which went ex-dividend on Sep 21, 2026 and paid on Sep 24, 2026.

Because RYLD pays a variable monthly distribution, the amount changes every period — its recent payments have ranged from $0.1475 to $0.1653 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, RYLD 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.

RYLD applies a covered-call strategy to the small-cap Russell 2000, paying a high monthly distribution. Small-cap volatility tends to make its yield high and its price path bumpy.

RYLD 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 RYLD: 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.