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Year-over-year compares each fund's last 12 months of payments against the 12 months before, per share, split-adjusted. Only funds with at least two years of payment history are ranked.
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How the grade is scored: yearly payout growth counts up to 25 points (capped, so one freak year can't outrank decades) + 2 points per raise-streak year, up to 50. A+ = 50 or more · A = 35+ · B+ = 20+ · B = below 20. A long streak of steady raises beats a big one-off jump.
| Fund | Verdict | Grade | Raise streak | $1,000/mo, rolled over | 2020 crash | 2022 bear | 2024 bull |
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Graded nightly by the same engine as the Fund Health Check — each fund measured only against its own payment record, never against another fund. Snowballing = paid meaningfully more per share across its last year's worth of checks than the year before; the dollar column is what $1,000 a month with every payout rolled back in became over the window shown (a record, not a promise, before taxes). Crisis columns are that calendar year's payout versus the year before. To grade the funds you own with your own share counts, use the health check.
The year-over-year tables below move slowly; this is what changed just now — each fund's most recent payment against the median of its previous eight. This is where cuts show up first.
| Fund | Latest Payment | Recent Median | Change | Paid |
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Only moves of 5% or more are listed — smaller wiggles are normal for option-income funds. A single smaller check isn't proof of a lasting cut; click the ticker to see the trend in full. Own one of these? See what the change does to YOUR monthly income →
Consecutive payments without a meaningful cut (each check at least 95% of the one before). The quiet workhorses, measured.
| Fund | Streak | Roughly | Latest Payment |
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Writers and researchers: these figures are free to cite with a link to this page. They recompute automatically from live payment data, so the numbers above are current as of today — not a stale snapshot.
| Fund | Paid Last 12 Mo | Prior 12 Mo | Change | Trailing Yield |
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Per-share payment totals. A declining payout usually reflects cooling volatility (for option-income funds) or business deterioration — click any ticker for the full payment-by-payment chart.
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| Fund | Paid Last 12 Mo | Prior 12 Mo | Change | Trailing Yield |
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Trailing yield sums a year of old checks; current pace annualizes the latest ones. The wider the gap, the more the headline number flatters the past.
| Fund | Trailing Yield | Current Pace | Gap |
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How These Statistics Are Computed
Every number on this page comes from real, split-adjusted payment histories — the same live data behind our dividend calendar and every chart on this site. For each fund we sum the last twelve months of per-share payments, compare against the twelve months before, and annualize the most recent payments for the "current pace." Nothing is hand-entered, so nothing here goes stale: reload tomorrow and the figures recompute.
What the Numbers Keep Showing
A pattern repeats across every update of this page: the funds with the most spectacular trailing yields are usually the ones whose payouts are shrinking fastest — because both symptoms share one cause. When an option-income fund's underlying volatility cools, its checks shrink and its share price has typically already fallen, which mathematically inflates the trailing percentage precisely when the income is fading. That's why we flag 20%+ trailing yields with a ⚠ across this site, and why the "current pace" column above is the number a buyer today should look at first. For the other half of the story — what each fund's share price did while it paid — see the Erosion Index. The mechanics are explained in plain English in Return of Capital & NAV Erosion.
Explore the Underlying Data
Every fund in these tables links to its full history page — every payment ever made, charted, with the next expected ex-dividend date. For your own holdings, the paycheck calendar maps when your money actually arrives, and the live calendar tracks all 201 funds' upcoming dates.
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Payment-by-payment charts, honest backtests, and next expected dates for all 82 tracked funds.
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