QLDY Dividend History

• By the record: the payment record opens October 1, 2025 and holds 54 checks, with $9.33 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 23% of the recent ~$41.43 share price.
• Pays: twice a week — the fastest cadence on this site.
• First paid: October 2025 — every payment since is charted below.
• What it is: Defiance's LightningSpread strategy — synthetic Nasdaq-100 exposure via deep in-the-money call options, plus daily income from systematically selling 0DTE put spreads.
• Fee: 1.04% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
• The twist: unlike the call-spread siblings (QQQY/WDTE), the income leg here sells put spreads — paid for carrying downside risk rather than selling upside.

Selling put spreads flips the failure mode: QLDY keeps more of the Nasdaq's rallies than a call-seller, but sharp down days hit twice — once through the index exposure, once through the sold puts. A young fund (late 2025) with a short record; the chart shows exactly how short.

QLDY pays twice a week. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in October 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: $9.33 per share across 52 payments — paying since Oct 2025, so no full prior-year comparison yet. What a change like that does to your income →
• Current pace: recent payments annualize to $11.57 — 24% above the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
• Share price, same 12 months: down 19% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
• Record: 54 payments over 12 months; the largest single payment was $0.201 (Oct 2025).
• Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
• Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±3% around their median. Compare that against any fund →

Every figure above is computed from QLDY'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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"Next expected" is estimated from QLDY'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.

Defiance's original daily-options funds (QQQY, WDTE, IWMY) sell call spreads — trading rallies for premium. QLDY inverts the income leg: deep-ITM calls carry the Nasdaq exposure with upside intact, while daily 0DTE put spreads harvest premium from the downside-insurance market.

The result should shine in up-markets and hurt double in sharp drops — a young record so far, best read against QQQY on the compare tool as the two sides of the same daily-options coin.

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.