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- Pays: monthly — 189 dividends since January 2011.
- Trailing 12 months: $1.49 per share across 12 payments — down 2% from $1.52 the year before, with the last three months steady at $0.12.
- What it holds: small and mid-cap equity REITs, weighted by dividend yield — the highest payers get the biggest slots, by rule.
- Fee: 0.35% expense ratio.
- Yield context: the trailing payout is roughly 8.1% of the recent ~$18.29 share price — earned without options or leverage.
Yield-weighting is a double-edged rule: it automatically concentrates the fund in the REITs the market prices cheapest — sometimes bargains, sometimes stocks that are cheap for a reason. KBWY's 15-year record carries both halves: an income stream that's genuinely high and roughly flat lately (down 2% on the trailing year), and a share price that has drifted well below its best years. The peak monthly check, $0.278, dates to October 2016.
Each point is one monthly KBWY dividend since January 2011 — 189 of them. The recent months sit at a steady $0.12; the peak era around 2016 sat more than twice as high.
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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: $1.48 per share across 12 payments — down 2% from $1.51 in the 12 months before. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $1.58 — 7% above the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: up 0% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 190 payments over 16 years; the largest single payment was $0.278 (Oct 2016).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±2% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
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| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Dividend / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from KBWY'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 double-digit-adjacent yields we chart are manufactured from option premium. KBWY's roughly 8.1% is different machinery: it owns real estate companies that pay real rents, and its yield-weighting rule tilts the portfolio to the highest payers among small REITs. The trailing year's $1.49 per share is down just 2% — steady lately — but the longer record shows checks near $0.278 in 2016 versus $0.12 now, because the rule also marches the fund into whatever the market has marked down.
For the large-cap version of REIT income, the site charts individual names like EPR and WPC; for preferred-based income at similar yields, see PFF. The compare tool overlays any pair of records.
| Year | Total Dividends / 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 KBWY's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
KBWY pays monthly — from small and mid-cap REIT dividends. 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 KBWY's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Fifteen Years of Chasing the Highest REIT Yields, On the Record
KBWY has run the same rule since January 2011: hold small and mid-cap equity REITs, weight them by dividend yield, pay the result out monthly. That's 189 payments over 15 years at a 0.35% fee — one of the longest high-yield equity records we chart, and a rare one built without options or leverage. The income is real rent, passed through twice: tenants to REITs, REITs to the fund.
What the Rule Buys and What It Costs
Yield-weighting is an automatic contrarian: whatever small REIT the market has beaten down becomes a bigger holding precisely because its yield rose. When the market was wrong, that harvested bargains; when it was right, the fund rode names down to their dividend cuts. The record carries both: a peak monthly check of $0.278 in October 2016, checks of $0.12 in the summer of 2026, and a trailing year at $1.49 per share — high, and just 2% below the year before. On the recent $18.29 price, that's roughly an 8.1% yield from unlevered real estate.
Where It Fits
KBWY earns its yield the old way, which makes it a useful benchmark for every engineered yield on this site: any option fund promising more should show a record that survives comparison with this one. The compare tool runs that test against all 182+ funds we chart, the Erosion Index tracks the price side, and the cut & raise board will flag the month the steady $0.12 changes in either direction.
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