- Pays: weekly (monthly during its first two years).
- First paid: November 2023.
- What it is: the YieldMax fund pointed at AMD — Nvidia's perennial challenger, whose stock swings on every AI-chip headline.
- Headline rate: trailing figures around 75% — rich because AMD trades like a verdict on the chip war, week to week.
- The pattern: the family constant — checks that swelled in AMD's manic stretches and thinned as the story cooled, with the share price carrying the drawdowns.
AMDY makes no promise to pay any particular amount; each payout depends on option income earned on AMD's volatility. AMD itself pays no meaningful dividend.
AMDY pays weekly (monthly until the family's schedule change). Each point below is one distribution since November 2023.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from AMDY'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.
AMD's stock is a rolling referendum on whether anyone can dent Nvidia's AI empire — and every earnings call, product launch, and hyperscaler rumor repricess it violently. That's option-seller weather, and AMDY has harvested it since late 2023 with the family's usual physics: premiums in, upside capped, downside kept.
The comparison worth making is NVDY — the same trade on the incumbent — and CHPY, which spreads it across the whole sector. The backtest above scores AMDY's version honestly.
| 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 AMDY's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
AMDY 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 AMDY's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
AMDY's Record So Far
AMDY — the YieldMax AMD Option Income Strategy ETF — began paying in November 2023, and its arc mirrors its underlying: heavy checks through AMD's AI-hope rallies, thinner ones as Nvidia's grip reasserted itself. The trailing rate near 75% reads backward across that whole ride.
The Underdog Premium
Challenger stocks often carry richer option premiums than incumbents — their futures are wider distributions, priced accordingly. AMDY monetizes that uncertainty weekly. The catch mirrors the opportunity: when the market decides the challenge has failed (or succeeded), the volatility — and the checks — deflate together.
Where AMDY Fits
For investors who want AMD exposure as income rather than as a lottery ticket — with NVDY and CHPY as the neighboring configurations of the same semiconductor trade. Next expected date on the live calendar.
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