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"Current pace" annualizes ULTY's last four payments; "trailing rate" sums the last twelve months of real payments. Both are before taxes and neither is a promise — ULTY's payout is variable by design.
Computed live from ULTY's most recent payments. Before taxes.
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Every payment ULTY has ever made — with the next expected ex-dividend date — is charted on the ULTY dividend history page.
The number most yield sites won't show you — computed live from ULTY's own payment record.
Most calculators would happily compound ULTY's yield for decades and hand you a nine-figure fantasy. We won't: ULTY's payouts track option premiums on a diversified basket of the market's most volatile stocks, they have fallen about 60% from their year-ago pace, and the fund's own price does not behave like a growth asset. For the long-horizon truth, the history page's backtest replays real prices with real payouts. For decades-long compounding, use funds whose payouts actually grow — that's what the main calculator is for.
What ULTY Is — the Diversified YieldMax
ULTY is the YieldMax family's basket fund: instead of bottling one stock's volatility, it sells option income across 15–30 of the market's most volatile names at once. That diversification means no single earnings disaster can sink it — but it doesn't change the family physics. Option income tracks volatility, volatility comes and goes, and ULTY's weekly checks have followed: the past twelve months paid roughly 60% less per share than the twelve months before.
Reading the Two Rates Above
The trailing rate sums a full year of real payments — but half of that year no longer resembles the present. The current pace annualizes the last four weekly checks, which is what your money would actually earn if this month repeated forever. Neither is a promise. When the two numbers disagree wildly — and for ULTY they do — the gap itself is the message: the payout is moving, and lately the direction has been down. Every payment ever made is charted on the ULTY dividend history page, next expected ex-date included.
If You Hold It Anyway
Some investors accept all of this and want the weekly cash regardless — a legitimate choice if it's made on total return (price change plus payouts, which the history page backtests honestly) rather than on a headline yield. Hold it in an IRA if you can: the distributions are mostly taxed as ordinary income otherwise, and at these payout sizes the tax drag is material. The return-of-capital guide explains the rest of the fine print.
Model Growing Income Instead
Taxes, DRIP, income goals, and the year-by-year snowball chart — built for funds whose payouts rise over time.
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