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- Pays: weekly — one of the first ETFs ever to pay every week.
- First paid: March 26, 2024 — 126 weekly distributions without a missed week.
- What it is: Roundhill's 0DTE fund — it sells options on Nasdaq-100 exposure that expire the same day ('zero days to expiration'), harvesting time-decay every single morning, at a 0.97% expense ratio.
- Payout pattern: the steadiest of the big weekly payers — the trailing 12 months paid $13.24 per share, just 3% below the year before (roughly 46% of the recent ~$28.82 price). The record single check, $1.915, was the year-end special of December 24, 2025.
- The trade-off: selling each day's upside caps rallies day by day, and the huge distribution rate keeps pressure on the share price.
QDTE targets high weekly income from same-day option premiums — no amount is promised, and the strategy is one of the newest in the ETF world.
QDTE pays weekly — dozens of points per year in the chart below, since March 2024. The table further down totals each year.
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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: $13.01 per share across 52 payments — down 3% from $13.48 in the 12 months before. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $9.02 — 31% 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 17% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 128 payments over 2 years; the largest single payment was $1.92 (Dec 2025).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 26. 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 QDTE'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 QDTE'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.
QDTE's twist on the covered-call playbook is speed: instead of selling monthly options, it sells options that expire the same day, every trading morning. Time-decay is steepest in an option's final hours, so harvesting it daily generates a torrent of premium — which QDTE hands out weekly. The cost is the same as ever, compressed: each day's upside beyond the strike is sold before lunch, so in strong rallies QDTE lags the Nasdaq badly.
It's a genuinely new strategy with barely two years of history — treat it as an experiment with weekly rewards, not a proven income machine. Judge it by total return (the backtest above), and compare the calmer monthly designs: QQQI and JEPQ run the same index at lower octane.
| 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 QDTE's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
QDTE pays weekly — typically going ex-dividend late in the week. 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 QDTE's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
QDTE's Weekly Record So Far
QDTE — the Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF — compresses the entire covered-call idea into a single trading day, then pays the harvest out every week. Since March 2024 the chart above has filled with dozens of payments a year: variable week to week, remarkably persistent in total. For a strategy this new, that consistency is the headline — and the caveat.
Daily Harvest, Weekly Paycheck
Each morning, QDTE sells call options on its Nasdaq-100 exposure that expire that afternoon. Option time-value burns fastest in those final hours, so the fund collects premium at the steepest part of the curve, every single session — then bundles a week of harvests into Friday-ish distributions. It's the same physics as QYLD's monthly overwrite, spun 20× faster.
What the Speed Costs
A fund that sells each day's upside participates in almost none of a sustained rally — the Nasdaq's best days are exactly the days QDTE's gains get capped by lunchtime. Add a distribution rate high enough to pressure the share price, and the honest framing is: maximum income now, minimal growth later, with a strategy young enough that a real bear market hasn't graded it yet. The weekly cousins worth comparing: ULTY (YieldMax's basket) and the calmer monthly Nasdaq income funds QQQI and JEPQ.
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QDTE, QQQI, JEPQ, QYLD — same index, four very different trades. The plain-English guide sorts them out.
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