- First check: $0.3732 per share, ex-dividend September 3, 2026, payable September 10 — the fund's first distribution ever, two weeks after its August 20, 2026 launch.
- What it is: large-cap stocks screened from the S&P 500 universe by dividend yield and free-cash-flow yield, rebalanced monthly, with a covered-call overlay funding the payout — the same basic shape as JEPI, with a different stock screen.
- Fee: 0.35% — exactly JEPI's fee, which is the entire competitive statement: category-defining product, matched at price.
- Pays: monthly, per the prospectus. Check one arrived on schedule; the record of whether that holds builds here.
- Launched: August 20, 2026 on NYSE Arca — our launch-day breakdown has the full strategy in plain English.
One check is a data point, not a yield. We don't annualize a single distribution — $0.3732 covering a two-week stub period tells you the machine works, not what a full month earns. The number worth watching is check two, the first one covering a normal period.
Each point below is one real GEEQ distribution, starting from the fund's first ever on September 3, 2026. Monthly points should accumulate quickly if the prospectus schedule holds.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
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| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from GEEQ'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 funds that arrive six years behind a category king discount their way in. Guggenheim priced GEEQ at JEPI's exact 0.35% and changed the stock screen instead: where JEPI selects for low volatility, GEEQ screens the S&P 500 universe for dividend yield and free-cash-flow yield, rebalanced monthly. Same wrapper, same price, different idea of which stocks to hold underneath the call overlay.
That makes the comparison unusually clean — no fee gap to explain away, just screen against screen, check against check. JEPI brings six years of monthly payments; GEEQ now brings one. The compare tool will run the overlay as GEEQ's line grows.
| 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 GEEQ's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
GEEQ pays monthly per the prospectus — the first distribution went ex-dividend September 3, 2026, two weeks after launch. 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 GEEQ's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Two Weeks From Listing to First Check
GEEQ listed August 20, 2026 and went ex-dividend on its first distribution September 3 — $0.3732 per share, payable September 10. For an income fund, speed to first payment is a small tell: the overlay was writing calls and accruing distributable income from day one rather than sitting in cash. It's also why the amount shouldn't be annualized — it covers a stub period, and the first full month's check is the real opening number.
The Cleanest JEPI Comparison Yet
Covered-call challengers usually differentiate on price or on exotic mechanics. GEEQ did neither: it matched JEPI's 0.35% exactly and bet entirely on stock selection — a dividend-yield and free-cash-flow-yield screen over the S&P 500 universe, rebalanced monthly, against JEPI's low-volatility book. With fees identical, every basis point of difference in delivered income and total return from here traces to that one design choice. That is a rare, genuinely clean experiment in a category full of confounded comparisons, and this page holds one side of the scoreboard.
What to Watch From Here
Three things, in order: whether the monthly rhythm holds (the prospectus says it should); what the first full-period check pays, which sets the real run-rate; and how the distribution behaves in the first choppy month, when call premium fattens but the underlying book takes the hit. The cut & raise board will pick GEEQ up automatically once it has enough checks to judge, and the launch page keeps the strategy background.
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