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- By the record: counting from March 3, 2025 the fund has made 83 payments, 52 of them in the year to October 4, 2026, worth $11.44 per share, too little history behind it for a year-over-year read, or about 28% of the ~$40.80 share price.
- Pays: weekly.
- First paid: March 2025 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: not an option-income fund. AAPW targets 1.2x the weekly total return of Apple (AAPL) via swap agreements — upside uncapped — and pays a weekly distribution set by a formula using the stock's performance and implied volatility.
- Fee: 0.99% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
- The angle: the steadiest mega-cap in the lineup — and the test of whether 1.2x plus a payout beats just owning it.
Leverage resets weekly, not daily — and cuts both ways: a ~83% single-week drop in AAPL could wipe the fund out entirely (issuer risk disclosure). Distributions are manufactured by formula, not earned as income, and recent 19a-1 notices for WeeklyPay funds have estimated them largely as return of capital.
AAPW pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in March 2025.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
- Trailing 12 months: $11.44 per share across 52 payments — paying since Mar 2025, so no full prior-year comparison yet. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $11.65 — 2% above the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: up 3% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 83 payments over 19 months; the largest single payment was $0.75 (Jul 2025).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 19. Get alerted to the next one →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±19% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from AAPW's actual payment record and share-price history as of the date shown — not copied from a fact sheet. Recomputed regularly; the chart above always shows the live data.
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| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from AAPW's recent payment rhythm — the fund announces exact dates shortly before each payout, and the data feed can lag a few days. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; the cash typically arrives days later. See every fund's upcoming date on the live dividend calendar.
A real total-return estimate, assuming every payout was reinvested — including what happened to the share price. Before taxes and fees. Past performance does not predict the future.
Most weekly payers on this site sell options; WeeklyPay funds don't sell anything. AAPW holds 1.2x leveraged AAPL exposure through swaps — rallies are uncapped — and simply pays out a formula-driven slice each week. When Apple runs, the checks and the share price can both climb; when it slides, leverage makes the slide 20% worse and the checks keep coming out of principal.
That's why the honest comparison is against simply owning AAPL outright, and against Roundhill's other WeeklyPay funds (PLTW, COIW, TSLW). Overlay any pair on the compare tool.
| Year | Total Distributions / Share | Payments | Change vs Prior Year |
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Data source: Yahoo Finance. Figures are per share; the current year may be partial and figures should be verified against official sources.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is AAPW's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
AAPW pays weekly. The exact date of each payout is announced by the fund only shortly beforehand, so no site can promise the next date — but the live schedule box above shows the most recent ex-dividend date and the expected window for the next one, computed from AAPW's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
AAPW's Record So Far
AAPW — the Roundhill AAPL WeeklyPay ETF — launched in February 2025 and has paid weekly since March 2025. The chart above shows every declared distribution.
Leverage With a Payout Habit
Strip the branding and AAPW is a 1.2x weekly-reset leveraged Apple fund that mails out a formula-sized check every week. Nothing is harvested or hedged: if AAPL compounds upward, 1.2x weekly exposure can outrun the payouts and everyone's happy; if it grinds down, the same leverage deepens the hole while distributions — largely return of capital — quietly shrink the base. The distribution's tax character also matters: return of capital lowers your cost basis, which our Cost Basis Calculator tracks lot by lot.
A Rising Line Is Not Rising Earnings
A rising payout line here doesn't mean the fund is earning more — the formula responds to volatility and price, not profit. Judge AAPW on total return against plain AAPL and against the option-income funds on the same stock. That three-way overlay is exactly what the compare tool was built for.
Apple gives AAPW the suite's most liquid underlying and its most watched one — and the rolling four-week payout softness flagged by our radar in August 2026 made it the first WeeklyPay fund we placed on formal cut-watch. Whether that drift was a blip or a slope is precisely what the next weeks of this chart will record.
The Apple-specific wrinkle: AAPL is the least volatile stock in the WeeklyPay stable, so AAPW's formula has the thinnest raw material — its checks run smaller per dollar than the crypto-adjacent siblings not because the fund is weaker but because Apple is calmer. Scale expectations accordingly.
The forward watch: Apple's capital-return machine (buybacks, its own growing dividend) historically dampens exactly the volatility AAPW's formula needs. If that machine ever slows, this fund's checks would paradoxically benefit — one of the stranger inversions on the shelf, and one the chart will document if it comes.
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