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- By the record: the record runs from August 4, 2025 to October 4, 2026 across 61 payments, the last twelve months contributing $25.16 per share over 52 checks, with no complete prior year to measure it against yet — roughly 43% of the recent ~$59.00 share price.
- Pays: weekly.
- First paid: August 2025 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: not an option-income fund. GOOW targets 1.2x the weekly total return of Alphabet (GOOGL) via swap agreements — upside uncapped — and pays a weekly distribution set by a formula using the stock's performance and implied volatility.
- Fee: 0.99% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
- The angle: search-and-AI exposure, levered and sliced weekly.
The weekly reset means one catastrophic Alphabet week — on the order of -80% — is technically a total-loss scenario, remote for a mega-cap but written into the design. No option is ever sold here — the weekly check is formula output, and the 19a-1 paperwork has treated the bulk of it as return of capital.
GOOW pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in August 2025.
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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: $25.16 per share across 52 payments — paying since Aug 2025, so no full prior-year comparison yet. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $20.15 — 20% 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 1% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 61 payments over 14 months; the largest single payment was $1.59 (Aug 2025).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 13. Get alerted to the next one →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±22% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from GOOW'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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| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from GOOW'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 weekly payers on this site sell options; WeeklyPay funds don't sell anything. GOOW holds 1.2x leveraged GOOGL exposure through swaps — rallies are uncapped — and simply pays out a formula-driven slice each week. When Alphabet runs, the checks and the share price can both climb; when it slides, leverage makes the slide 20% worse and the checks keep coming out of principal.
That's why the honest comparison is against the option-income version of the same stock — GOOY — and against Roundhill's other WeeklyPay funds (PLTW, COIW, TSLW). Overlay any pair on the compare tool.
| 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 GOOW's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
GOOW 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 GOOW's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
GOOW's Record So Far
GOOW — the Roundhill GOOGL WeeklyPay ETF — launched in July 2025 and has paid weekly since August 2025. The chart above shows every declared distribution.
Leverage With a Payout Habit
Strip the branding and GOOW is a 1.2x weekly-reset leveraged Alphabet fund that mails out a formula-sized check every week. In Alphabet's good years the 1.2x engine can pay the formula and still grow — the record above includes exactly such stretches. The distribution's tax character also matters: return of capital lowers your cost basis, which our Cost Basis Calculator tracks lot by lot.
The Formula Reads Conditions, It Does Not Earn
When GOOW's checks swell it means Alphabet moved or its options repriced — the formula reads conditions, it doesn't earn income. The three-way that matters: GOOW versus simply holding Alphabet versus GOOY's covered-call harvest of it. That three-way overlay is exactly what the compare tool was built for.
Alphabet is an odd host for this machinery — the calmest of the WeeklyPay underlyings, which mutes both the formula's payouts and its risks. GOOW's record therefore reads like the suite's control experiment: what the design does when its fuel is premium-grade but low-octane.
Timing matters more here than for option funds: WeeklyPay distributions key off the prior week's move, so GOOW's checks lag Alphabet's news by days. Earnings weeks tell the story best — the stock jumps Thursday, the formula's response lands in the following Monday's declaration, and the chart above preserves each of those echoes.
Where this record goes next depends on a question no formula answers: does Alphabet stay boring? A regulatory breakup, an AI monetization surprise, or a genuine growth scare would hand GOOW the volatility its formula feeds on — and the payment line above would register the regime change within two weekly declarations.
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