XYLG Dividend Calculator

XYLG is the Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF. It started in September 2020. It owns the stocks in the S&P 500 and sells call options on about half of that portfolio, following the Cboe S&P 500 Half BuyWrite Index.

Selling calls brings in cash but gives up some gains when stocks jump. Because XYLG does this on only half its holdings, it keeps more of the market’s upside than a fund that writes calls on everything, such as its sister fund XYLD. In return, its monthly income is smaller. XYLG costs 0.35% a year and had $74.23 million in assets on October 15, 2026, spread over 504 holdings.

The monthly checks are fairly small and they change each month. In 2026 they ranged from $0.1012 in September to $0.1696 in March. The first nine 2026 payments add up to $1.132 a share, 3.8% less than the same nine months of 2025.

The yearly totals swing far more than that because of December. On December 30, 2021 XYLG paid $1.10, on December 30, 2024 it paid $5.25, and on December 30, 2025 it paid $2.14. That is why 2024 shows $6.5958, up 375.9%, and 2025 shows $3.8333, down 41.9%.

Without those year-end payments, XYLG paid about $1.69 a share in its regular monthly checks in 2025.

Global X’s annual reports show what each fiscal year’s payouts were made of. Its year ends on October 31. In the year to October 2025, XYLG paid $1.50 a share from income and $5.25 from capital gains. So almost all of the December 2024 payment was a capital gain, not option income.

Earlier years were mixed. The year to October 2022 paid $0.42 of income, $1.10 of capital gains and $1.08 that was a return of capital. In the year to October 2023, $1.24 of the $1.43 paid was return of capital. The December 2025 payment falls in a fiscal year Global X has not yet reported on.

XYLG pays monthly. The ex-date is usually a Monday in the second half of the month, and cash arrives that Thursday. Global X’s 2026 calendar also lists December 30 as a date for a possible extra payment.

Global X had not posted an October 2026 amount as of October 16, 2026. In 2025 the October ex-date was October 20.

Payments in the 12 months to Oct 13, 2026 came to $3.79 a share, a trailing yield near 12.64%. That figure includes the $2.14 December payment. Global X’s distribution rate, based only on the latest monthly check, was 4.00%. XYLD’s trailing yield was about 10.31%.

Counting payouts, XYLG returned 16.67% over the year to September 30, 2026, 18.43% a year over three years and 10.97% a year over five. In the year to October 2025 it made 16.08%, while the S&P 500 made 21.45%.

As of Oct 13, 2026, XYLG yields about 12.64%, having distributed $3.79 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $0.1012 per share, which went ex-dividend on Sep 21, 2026 and paid on Sep 24, 2026.

Because XYLG pays a variable monthly distribution, the amount changes every period — its recent payments have ranged from $0.1012 to $0.1427 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, XYLG 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.

XYLG owns the S&P 500 and writes call options on roughly half of the portfolio, tracking the Cboe S&P 500 Half BuyWrite Index and paying monthly. The half-covered approach yields less than a full covered-call fund like XYLD but retains more upside participation.

XYLG 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 XYLG: 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.