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- By the record: 73 payments sit in the record, the first on January 5, 2024, and as of October 4, 2026 $8.97 per share arrived over the last twelve months in 51 checks, versus $49.99 in the preceding year, down 82% — roughly 121% of the recent ~$7.41 share price.
- Pays: weekly since the family's 2025 switch from four-week cycles.
- First paid: January 2024 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: a YieldMax fund that sells call spreads on C3.ai (AI), converting the stock's volatility into distributable premium. It does not simply hold the stock.
- Fee: 0.99% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
- The angle: the most misread ticker in the family: the underlying is C3.ai Inc (ticker AI) — one volatile small-cap software company, not the AI sector.
The income is option premium, not C3.ai profits: AIYY caps its upside when AI rallies and keeps most of the downside when it falls. Below: what selling C3.ai's speculative premium has actually paid, dated.
AIYY pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in January 2024.
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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: $8.97 per share across 51 payments — down 82% from $49.99 in the 12 months before (split-adjusted, in today's share terms). What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $5.15 — 43% below the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: down 71% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 73 payments over 3 years; the largest single payment was $13.49 (Jan 2024), split-adjusted.
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 29. Get alerted to the next one →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±8% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
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"Next expected" is estimated from AIYY'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.
Every YieldMax single-stock fund runs the same machine on a different engine: sell C3.ai's rallies for premium, keep its declines, pay the premium out. What varies is the engine's temperament — and AI's temperament is the whole story of this chart. Contrast AIYY with the diversified CHPY (a whole chip basket) via the compare tool; the Erosion Index shows what the yield cost.
| 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. Note: after a share split, this data source restates all historical per-share payouts in today's share terms — the split disclosure above the chart applies.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is AIYY's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
AIYY 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 AIYY's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
AIYY's Record So Far
AIYY — the YieldMax AI Option Income Strategy ETF — launched in November 2023 and has paid since January 2024; the most misread ticker in the family: the underlying is C3.ai Inc (ticker AI) — one volatile small-cap software company, not the AI sector. AIYY's full declared history is charted; yearly sums live in the table.
How the Machine Works
The fund sells call spreads on AI, harvesting the premium the market pays for C3.ai's future volatility, and distributes that premium weekly. Every AI-hype rally beyond the strikes escapes; every AI-winter drawdown lands. Small underlying plus huge premium equals the family's most boom-bust record per dollar. Our compare tool overlays exactly that.
AIYY Lives at the Extremes
AIYY's spiky record is its underlying's personality. Before annualizing anything here, read the stats board and Erosion Index — this fund lives at their extremes.
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