BITO Dividend History

• Pays: monthly, going ex-dividend at the start of the month — when there's anything to pay.
• Paying since: 2023 in this data (the fund itself launched October 2021 as the first US bitcoin-futures ETF).
• What it is: a fund that holds bitcoin FUTURES — its distributions are mostly gains from rolling those futures, not option income.
• Payout pattern: feast and famine — roughly $14/share in 2024, $9.50 in 2025, and near zero through mid-2026 as futures gains dried up.
• The lesson in one line: a trailing "yield" means nothing here — payouts only exist when bitcoin futures make money.

BITO promises no distribution at all — in months without futures gains to distribute, checks can shrink to pennies, as 2026 shows.

BITO pays monthly when it has gains to distribute. Each point below is one distribution — you can see the 2024 feast and the 2026 famine plainly. The table further down totals each year.

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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: $3.21 per share across 12 payments — down 70% from $10.60 in the 12 months before. What a change like that does to your income →
• Current pace: recent payments annualize to $0.15 — 95% 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 44% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
• Record: 44 payments over 4 years; the largest single payment was $1.77 (Jun 2024).
• Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 12. Get alerted to the next one →

Every figure above is computed from BITO'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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"Next expected" is estimated from BITO'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.

Screeners love to show BITO with a huge trailing yield — and it's a mirage. BITO doesn't manufacture income the way covered-call funds do; it simply passes through gains from rolling bitcoin futures when those gains exist. Bull year: enormous distributions (2024 paid about $14 a share). Flat or falling year: nearly nothing (mid-2026's payments have totaled pennies). The trailing yield is a photo of last year's weather, not a forecast.

If a dependable monthly check from crypto exposure is what you want, an engineered-income design like BTCI pays from option premiums, which exist in every kind of market. And whatever you hold, judge it by total return — the backtest box above does that math with real prices.

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.