- Pays: weekly — typically going ex-dividend on Mondays.
- First paid: early 2025, shortly after its February 2025 launch.
- What it is: Roundhill's WeeklyPay fund on Palantir — it targets 1.2× PLTR's weekly return via swap contracts, and pays a distribution every week.
- Not option income: unlike the YieldMax funds, PLTW doesn't sell calls — it's leveraged exposure with a payout mechanism, so upside isn't capped (and downside is amplified).
- The checks swing hard: recent weeks have ranged from about 7 cents to 27 cents — the payout tracks a leveraged version of one volatile stock's week.
PLTW's distributions vary sharply week to week and include return-of-capital mechanics; 1.2x leverage means it falls harder than Palantir in down weeks.
PLTW pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since early 2025 — note how violently the amounts swing compared with any option-income fund we track.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from PLTW'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.
PLTW belongs to a different species than the YieldMax funds it superficially resembles. There's no option-selling here: the fund uses swaps to deliver 1.2 times Palantir's weekly return, and distributes cash weekly as part of the wrapper. That means PLTW keeps Palantir's rallies — leveraged, even — where an option-income fund like PLTY sells them away. The price: it also takes Palantir's falls at 1.2x, and weekly leverage resets mean choppy sideways markets quietly grind at returns.
The distributions are correspondingly wild — a fraction of the fund's value paid out weekly, swinging with each week's leveraged result and carrying heavy return-of-capital components (what that means). Judge PLTW by total return against simply owning PLTR — that's the comparison the structure invites.
| 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 PLTW's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
PLTW pays weekly — typically going ex-dividend on Mondays. 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 PLTW's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
PLTW's Record: A New Kind of Weekly Payer
PLTW — the Roundhill PLTR WeeklyPay ETF — launched in February 2025 as part of a new generation of income products: leveraged single-stock exposure with a weekly distribution bolted on. Its first partial year paid out roughly $27 per share against a share price near $19 today — numbers that only make sense once you understand the checks are largely the fund handing you pieces of a leveraged position, week by week, rather than income earned on top of one.
The Machinery: Swaps, Not Options
Everything else in our high-yield stable earns its distributions by selling something — call options, usually. PLTW sells nothing. It holds swap contracts engineered to return 1.2× whatever Palantir's stock does each calendar week, and distributes cash weekly regardless. Good week: the NAV jumps (leveraged) and the check is fat. Bad week: the NAV drops (leveraged) and the check is thin. Flat, choppy month: leverage-reset decay quietly taxes the ride. The weekly amounts above — swinging from seven cents to twenty-seven within a single month — are that engine, drawn honestly.
Who This Is Actually For
PLTW is for a Palantir bull who wants amplified exposure and a weekly cash drip — essentially a trading position that pays out as it goes. It is not a yield investment: the "yield" is mostly your own leveraged capital in motion, with heavy return-of-capital tax character. If what you actually want is income harvested from Palantir's volatility, that's PLTY's design — compare their charts and note how differently the same stock feeds two machines. Both funds' next expected dates are on the live calendar.
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