Autocallable ETFs: The Complete List

Twenty-nine autocallable ETFs have declared real distributions. The "latest payment" column is pulled live from each fund's actual payment data every time this page loads.

*Rate = issuer-reported annualized distribution rate or target at our last verification (July-September 2026) — these move; check the linked chart pages for what each fund is paying right now. "—" means we haven't verified a figure against the issuer yet and won't guess. Linked tickers have full payment-by-payment charts; the rest join our chart engine as their records grow.

The category's whole pitch is consistent income — so we measure it. For every payer with at least four checks, this board computes how much its recent payments actually wobble around its typical check. Recomputed from live payment data on every visit; smaller wobble ranks higher.

*Wobble = how far the fund's recent payments (up to the last 12) typically stray from its median check, as a percentage. ±0% would be perfectly identical checks. Trend compares the newer half of that window to the older half. Steady payments are only half the story — pair this with the Erosion Index to check what the share price did while the checks stayed pretty. Free to cite with attribution to Snowball Dividends.

The board above ranks how steady the checks are. Steady is not the same as delivered: a fund can pay beautifully while its share price pays for it. This table adds the two together, over a window every fund below shares, so the comparison is like for like.

Read this before the numbers. Only 10 of 29 paying autocallable ETFs have enough history to appear here. The rest are listed underneath, unranked, because a fund with one check cannot be compared with one that has fifteen. Risk tiers are measured, not labelled — they come from each fund's own worst peak-to-trough fall inside the window, so nothing here is called risky for holding a single stock.

Six months is one market regime. These funds sell deep-crash insurance, and a barrier that has not been tested looks identical to one that will hold — which is what the worst number in the category is there to remind you of. Figures are per share, before tax, and recomputed from the payment record and daily closes on every build.

Every yield number you hear about these funds is a target, not a track record. We watch them daily and will chart every payment from check #1.

Two autocallable ETFs on this watch have still never declared a distribution, and 11 have now paid. Their first checks are the moment their advertised targets become real numbers. Our radar checks every one of them daily; this board flips automatically the day a first distribution appears in the data.

Want the first check the day it lands? One short email when any of these funds declares — that's the whole list.

• What gets insured: a single index (CAIE, CAIQ, PAYM, PAYH, ATCL, the ProShares suite), a worst-of basket of three indexes (ACII — richer coupons, three tripwires), individual stocks pooled in a ladder (ACEI, ACYQ), or one single stock — GraniteShares runs a whole suite of these (Tesla, Nvidia, Robinhood, Coinbase, Strategy, Palantir, Super Micro, MARA: TLA, ANV, AHD, ATC, MSR, PLA, SCA, MRA), the concentrated extreme with the category's richest checks.
• The volatility dial: coupons are priced off volatility, so issuers engineer it — from PAYM's defensive 20% target (~10% income) through PAYH's 35% (~17%) to ATCL's 40% (SOFR + 10% target). More volatility, richer coupons, closer barriers.
• Ladder granularity: Calamos ladders 52+ positions; ATCL starts a new one nearly every trading day (250+ live). Finer ladders smooth timing risk.
• Payment rhythm: everyone pays monthly except VAIE (weekly) — and ATCL pays mid-month while most pay near month-end, which matters if you're smoothing an income calendar.

Full plain-English mechanics — coupons, barriers, autocall dates, and what breaks in a crash — in the autocallable ETF explainer.

Every fund on this page sells the same thing: crash insurance. The coupons are the premium collected for agreeing to absorb deep losses if markets fall through distant barriers. The whole category launched into a market that has never tested those barriers — no US autocallable ETF has been through a genuine bear market yet. Steady checks in the tables above are the strategy's good weather, not proof it can't rain.

Model what a payout change would do to your income with the Payout Impact Calculator Cost Basis Calculator Crash Simulator, and watch principal health on the Erosion Index.