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- By the record: the payment record opens May 8, 2025 and holds 57 checks, with $25.88 per share across 51 payments in the twelve months to October 4, 2026, too little history behind it for a year-over-year read, or about 174% of the ~$14.85 share price.
- Pays: weekly.
- First paid: May 2025 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: the contrarian YieldMax: short exposure to Strategy (MicroStrategy) (MSTR), harvesting option premium by writing put spreads. Falling or flat MSTR fattens this fund; a ripping MSTR empties it.
- Fee: 1.00% gross expense ratio (issuer fund page).
- The mirror: MSTY harvests the same stock's volatility from the long side.
- Live mirror proof (Aug 28, 2026): the week MSTR ripped and MSTY's check spiked 38% above its median, WNTR's fell 48% below its own — $0.575 to $0.250 over ten weeks as the rally built. The short side's bad season is the long side's good one, on schedule.
Read the label twice: WNTR wins when MicroStrategy loses, full stop. MSTR squeezes are legendary — one violent rally can undo months of collected premium, whatever the income column says. Payouts plot below — pair them with the share-price line for the verdict.
WNTR pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since the fund began paying in May 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: $25.88 per share across 51 payments — paying since May 2025, so no full prior-year comparison yet. What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $12.53 — 52% 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 55% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 57 payments over 17 months; the largest single payment was $3.29 (Sep 2025).
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 22. Get alerted to the next one →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±39% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from WNTR'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 WNTR'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.
WNTR inverts the family recipe — short exposure plus option income, built for holders who expect MicroStrategy pain. That makes it one of the few income tickers that wants bad news for Strategy (MicroStrategy). For the basket version of betting against high-fliers, SLTY shorts a rotating set instead of one name.
Its true mirror is MSTY — identical volatility source, reversed sign. The compare tool puts WNTR over MSTY — long and short income on one stock, one chart.
| 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 WNTR's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
WNTR pays weekly. 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 WNTR's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
WNTR's Record So Far
WNTR — the YieldMax MSTR Short Option Income Strategy ETF — launched in March 2025 and has paid weekly since May 2025. Above: each distribution WNTR has declared, dated.
Why an Inverse Income Fund Exists
Strategy (MicroStrategy)'s volatility prices rich option premium in both directions. Where MSTY monetizes MSTR hope, WNTR monetizes MSTR doubt — put spreads riding inverse exposure. Symmetry cuts both ways: melt-ups punish WNTR precisely as melt-downs punish its long-side mirror.
The Chart Cannot Show the Squeeze
The 2026 stretch above is a short fund's dream season; the chart cannot show you the squeeze that ends such seasons. Score it across full MSTR cycles — the 2026 decline flattered every short fund, and the next mania will do the opposite. The compare tool makes that overlay one click.
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