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- By the record: $6.61 per share arrived in the twelve months to October 4, 2026, in 10 checks, out of 10 payments going back to December 24, 2025, still short of a full two-year record so no prior-year comparison holds yet, equal to about 13% of the recent ~$51.17 share price.
- Pays: monthly.
- First paid: December 2025 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: an actively managed options-overlay fund on MLPs and energy infrastructure, run for high monthly income in a tax-efficient manner — the NEOS signature — while keeping room for appreciation.
- Fee: 0.68% expense ratio (issuer fund page).
- The family: sibling of SPYI and QQQI — the newest seat — pipeline cash flows plus an options overlay, without a K-1.
NEOS's edge claim is tax engineering: index options with favorable 60/40 tax treatment and active management of the overlay, rather than maximum-premium harvesting. Its rate targets the sensible middle — well above pipeline dividends alone, well below the yield-screenshot funds.
MLPI pays monthly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in December 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: $6.61 per share across 10 payments — paying since Dec 2025, so no full prior-year comparison yet. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $8.61 — a projection, not a promise: the fund hasn't paid for a full year yet. Live cut & raise board →
- Record: 10 payments over 9 months; the largest single payment was $0.704 (May 2026).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
- Payment steadiness: the last 10 checks wobble ±3% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from MLPI'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 MLPI'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.
The SPYI playbook — income engineered for the net-of-tax line — gets its energy-infrastructure application here. MLPI extends the same playbook to MLPs and energy infrastructure.
Held taxably, the structure's whole advantage accrues quietly every year — the sales pitch is literally a tax form. Set MLPI against AMLP — plain pipeline exposure, no overlay — on the compare tool to price what the option layer adds.
| 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 MLPI's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
MLPI pays monthly. 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 MLPI's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
MLPI's Record So Far
MLPI — the NEOS MLP & Energy Infrastructure High Income ETF — launched in December 2025 and has paid monthly since December 2025. The full declared record sits above.
The MLP Toll Road, Tax-Wrapped
Most income funds compete on the size of the check; NEOS competes on what's left of it in April. MLPI brings that discipline to MLPs and energy infrastructure — an options overlay sized for sustainable monthly income, index-option tax treatment where available, and active harvesting underneath. Nobody screenshots MLPI — its buyers are reading after-tax spreadsheets, not timelines.
Steady Is the Design Goal Here
A moderate, steady payout line is the design goal here, so judge MLPI on consistency and total return rather than peak yield — the payout statistics board scores exactly that steadiness, and the compare tool puts the NEOS approach head-to-head with the aggressive end of the category.
Energy infrastructure adds its own character to the record: pipeline cash flows are contracted and steady, so MLPI's underlying wobbles less than tech-based income funds — the payment line above owes its calm as much to the assets as to the overlay.
A practical note for holders: midstream energy pays on its own calendar, and MLPI's distribution timing has settled into a mid-month rhythm you can verify in the schedule above. Watch two things across a year — whether the overlay's contribution grows relative to the underlying MLP yield, and whether the payout's tax character holds to the fund's 60/40 thesis. Both show up in the annual notices before they show up anywhere else.
Worth knowing about the category: MLP funds were long the province of specialist closed-end vehicles with leverage and fee stacks to match. An index-option overlay in a plain ETF wrapper is the modern, cheaper reformulation — and whether it delivers comparable after-tax income without the closed-end baggage is the exact question this payment record accumulates evidence on.
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