ULTY Dividend Calculator

No. ULTY has paid every week since March 13, 2025, when it moved from monthly to weekly payments. It made 38 payments in 2026 through September 23. The payments are much smaller than a year earlier, and old amounts look larger after the reverse split, which can make it seem as if something stopped.

On today’s share basis, ULTY paid $53.3797 across 47 payments in 2025. From January 1 to September 23, 2026 it paid $14.7867, against $42.649 over the same weeks of 2025, which is 65.3% less.

Each weekly payment in 2026 has come to between $0.2967 and $0.5186 per share.

YieldMax declares each ULTY payment on a Tuesday. The ex-dividend date is the next day, Wednesday, and the cash is paid on Thursday. Every 2026 payment so far has followed that pattern.

So the “ULTY dividend announcement today” comes out on Tuesdays. To collect it, you must own the shares by the close on Tuesday, before the Wednesday ex-date.

Most YieldMax funds are tied to one company. ULTY is actively managed, usually across 15 to 30 stocks, and sells call spreads on them. YieldMax says it mixes high-volatility stocks, which generate most of the option income, with steadier large companies.

Spreading the options over many names means one stock’s swings matter less than in a single-stock fund, but the income still depends on how much those stocks move.

YieldMax estimated that each of the eight payments from August 5 to September 23, 2026 was 100% return of capital, with no income. Return of capital is money handed back from the fund rather than earned. It is usually not taxed when paid, but it lowers your cost basis, so you may owe more tax when you sell.

These are estimates. The final tax breakdown for the year appears on your Form 1099-DIV.

As of Oct 13, 2026, ULTY’s trailing yield was about 92.32%: $23.38 paid per share over 12 months, divided by the share price.

YieldMax quoted a 60.83% distribution rate on September 22, 2026, which assumes the latest weekly payment repeats for a year. Its 30-day SEC yield was −0.73% on August 31, 2026. That figure counts only dividends and interest after costs, so it can fall below zero for a fund whose payouts come from options.

From its start on February 28, 2024 to August 31, 2026, ULTY returned 2.19% a year at net asset value, including all payouts, or 5.58% in total. The S&P 500 returned 19.57% a year over the same time. In the 12 months to August 31, 2026, ULTY lost 5.92% while the S&P 500 gained 20.38%.

On the past 12 months of payouts, $12,000 a year would need about $12,998 of ULTY, around 513 shares at about $25.32.

Recent weekly payments are well below last year’s pace, so the real amount needed may be much higher. Use the income calculator above with a lower yield to see the range.

The YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF launched on February 28, 2024 and trades on NYSE Arca. Its gross expense ratio is 1.40%, which is $140 a year on a $10,000 holding.

As of Oct 13, 2026, ULTY yields about 92.32%, having distributed $23.38 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $0.3016 per share, which went ex-dividend on Oct 7, 2026 and paid on Oct 8, 2026.

Because ULTY pays a variable weekly distribution, the amount changes every period — its recent payments have ranged from $0.2943 to $0.3058 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, ULTY 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.

ULTY runs an option-income strategy across a rotating basket of highly volatile underlying stocks rather than tracking a single name, aiming for a very high weekly distribution. Payouts move sharply week to week because they depend on option premiums, which rise and fall with volatility, and the share price has historically been prone to erosion. Treat it as a high-risk, speculative income product and model the price-growth input conservatively — often at or below zero.

ULTY 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 ULTY: 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.