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- By the record: the payment record opens January 3, 2025 and holds 62 checks, with $8.15 per share across 52 payments in the twelve months to October 4, 2026, still short of a full two-year record so no prior-year comparison holds yet, equal to about 212% of the recent ~$3.84 share price.
- Pays: weekly since YieldMax's 2025 cadence change; every-four-weeks before that.
- First paid: January 2025 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: a YieldMax fund that sells call spreads on MARA Holdings (MARA), converting the stock's volatility into distributable premium. It does not simply hold the stock.
- Fee: 1.00% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
- The angle: bitcoin-miner volatility — one of the wildest underlyings YieldMax covers.
The income is option premium, not MARA Holdings profits: MARO caps its upside when MARA rallies and keeps most of the downside when it falls. MARO's payouts breathe with mining volatility — the record below is what that has actually meant per share.
MARO pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in January 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: $8.15 per share across 52 payments — paying since Jan 2025, so no full prior-year comparison yet. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $3.61 — 56% 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 79% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 62 payments over 21 months; the largest single payment was $2.50 (Jan 2025).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 26. Get alerted to the next one →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±12% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from MARO'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 MARO'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.
Every YieldMax single-stock fund runs the same machine on a different engine: sell MARA Holdings's rallies for premium, keep its declines, pay the premium out. What varies is the engine's temperament — and MARA's temperament is the whole story of this chart. MARO's closest read is YBIT (bitcoin itself, same machine) — the compare tool and Erosion Index settle which harvested crypto better.
| 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 MARO's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
MARO 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 MARO's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
MARO's Record So Far
MARO — the YieldMax MARA Option Income Strategy ETF — launched in December 2024 and has paid since January 2025; bitcoin-miner volatility — one of the wildest underlyings YieldMax covers. Every declared MARO check is plotted above; the yearly table sums the per-share reality.
How the Machine Works
The fund sells call spreads on MARA, harvesting the premium the market pays for MARA Holdings's future volatility, and distributes that premium weekly. Rallies above the sold strikes are surrendered while MARA's notorious drawdowns arrive intact — over years, only total return (payouts plus price) tells the truth, and for miner funds that number is brutal in winters. Our compare tool overlays exactly that.
Three Forces Behind the Step Down
The typical shape here — big 2024 checks, thinner ones since — mixes three forces: the weekly cadence switch slicing payments smaller, crypto volatility cooling, and share-price erosion compounding. The stats board and Erosion Index hold MARO's actual scorecard.
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