- Pays: weekly — typically going ex-dividend on Wednesdays.
- First paid: April 2025, right after launch.
- What it is: the YieldMax fund pointed at SEMICONDUCTORS — it sells option income across a basket of chip names (the Nvidias, AMDs, and Broadcoms) instead of betting on one.
- Why the checks are big: chip stocks are the market's most volatile sector after crypto, and volatility is what option buyers pay for.
- Basket, not single-stock: one company's earnings disaster can't sink it — but a sector-wide chip slump hits every holding at once.
CHPY makes no promise to pay any particular amount; each payout depends on the option income earned that period.
CHPY pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since April 2025. 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.
| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from CHPY'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.
Semiconductor stocks swing harder than almost anything else with earnings attached — AI headlines, export rules, and boom-bust chip cycles keep option premiums rich. CHPY harvests those premiums across a basket of chipmakers and pays them out weekly. The diversification softens single-company disasters; the sector concentration means a chip winter would cool every holding — and every check — at once.
The family physics still apply: capped upside, kept downside, return-of-capital components. Judge CHPY by total return in the backtest above, and get the machinery in What Are YieldMax ETFs?
| 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 CHPY's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
CHPY pays weekly — typically going ex-dividend on Wednesdays. 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 CHPY's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
CHPY's Record So Far
CHPY — the YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF — launched in April 2025, mid-AI-boom, and has paid weekly ever since: about $15.68 per share across its partial 2025, with 2026 tracking at a similar-to-stronger weekly pace. That steadiness (by YieldMax standards) reflects its design: a rotating basket of chip names rather than one ticker's fate.
Why Semiconductors Pay So Well
Chip stocks live on expectation — AI capex, export politics, inventory cycles — and expectation is volatile. Option buyers pay heavily for exposure to those swings, and CHPY sells it to them, week after week. When the sector runs hot, premiums swell; when it cools, they shrink. The chart above is a live record of exactly how hot the chip trade has been.
Where CHPY Fits
CHPY suits an investor who wants the semiconductor theme as income rather than growth — accepting sold-away rallies in exchange for weekly cash. For the single-stock version of this trade see NVDY; for the family's broadest basket see ULTY. Its next expected date is always on the live calendar.
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