USOY Dividend History

• Pays: weekly — 75 distributions since June 3, 2024.
• The slide: the trailing 12 months paid $3.97 per share across 52 checks — down 58% from $9.39 the year before, with weekly checks fading from $0.716 at launch to about $0.06 now as oil volatility drained out of put premiums. Still roughly 57% of the recent ~$6.95 share price — a number that says as much about the price as the payout.
• The strange cousin: over the same window, USOI — the covered-call ETN on the same oil fund — paid 38% MORE than its prior year. Same barrel, different option machine, opposite year.
• What it is: a put-write fund: it sells put options for indirect exposure to the United States Oil Fund (USO), distributing the premium weekly. Not a covered-call fund, and not an oil-company fund — the underlying is the oil price via USO.
• Fee: 1.12% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
• The angle: the only weekly income fund on this site whose engine runs on a commodity's volatility rather than a stock's.

Selling puts means USOY is paid while oil holds or climbs — and absorbs the losses when crude drops through its strikes. Oil's crash history (2014, 2020's negative futures print) is the tail risk priced into these premiums.

USOY pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in June 2024.

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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: $3.80 per share across 52 payments — down 54% from $8.28 in the 12 months before. What a change like that does to your income →
• Current pace: recent payments annualize to $3.30 — 13% 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 9% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
• Record: 81 payments over 2 years; the largest single payment was $1.24 (Jul 2024).
• Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 20. Get alerted to the next one →
• Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±5% around their median. Compare that against any fund →

Every figure above is computed from USOY'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 USOY'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.

Stock-based income funds harvest earnings-season nerves; USOY harvests OPEC meetings, inventory reports, and geopolitics — crude's volatility premium, collected by selling puts on USO. The rhythm of its checks tracks the oil market's anxiety the way a YieldMax fund's tracks its stock's.

The put-write shape matters: gains are capped at the premium collected, while a genuine oil crash lands on the fund. Compare the record against energy-equity income like AMLP's pipeline distributions on the compare tool — same sector, opposite machinery.

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.