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AIYY Dividend Calculator

YieldMax AI Option Income Strategy ETF — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays weekly.

AIYY Dividend Calculator

= $7.8000 / share / year

0% = yield stays constant. Negative models normalization (e.g. -10%/yr).

1Y: -80.2%

years
Portfolio Growth

No DRIP vs DRIP

Portfolio Value$11$52.4KTotal Dividends$17.1K$293.9KAnnual Dividend$9$44.6KYoC0.09%448.02%

DRIP Advantage

Total invested: $10.0K

+478.8K%

$52.4K more

Income Goal
/ month

Reached in year 9

AIYY crosses $43.2K/yr ($3,600.00/mo) of dividend income in year 9 of the projection. Goal auto-suggested from your inputs — bump it up to model a stretch target.

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Scenarios

Three realistic paths for high-yield funds: yield holds, yield compresses, yield normalizes. Click any card to load it.

What is AIYY?

AIYY is a YieldMax single-stock option income ETF that generates weekly distributions by selling (writing) call option spreads on AI. The fund doesn't simply hold AI shares — instead, it uses a synthetic options strategy with U.S. Treasury securities as collateral to create exposure to AI while harvesting option premiums.

Latest AIYY distribution

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Per share
$0.1388
Distribution rate
72.83%
30-day SEC yield
2.89%
ROC %
96.11%
Declared
May 6, 2026
Ex-date
May 7, 2026
Payable
May 8, 2026
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AIYY Real Yield

Headline yield adjusted for NAV erosion (1Y)

HeadlineReal56.9%→-69.0%
NAV -80.2%

126% of the headline yield has been offset by share price decline over the past 1Y.

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AIYY Dividend History

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How AIYY generates income

AIYY is a YieldMax single-stock option income ETF that generates weekly distributions by selling (writing) call option spreads on AI. The fund doesn't simply hold AI shares — instead, it uses a synthetic options strategy with U.S. Treasury securities as collateral to create exposure to AI while harvesting option premiums.

Each week, the fund sells call options on AI at strike prices above the current market price. The premiums collected from these sales are the primary source of the distributions paid to shareholders. When AI's implied volatility is high, option premiums are larger and distributions tend to be bigger. When volatility is low, distributions shrink.

The core trade-off: your upside participation in AI's price gains is capped at the sold call strike price. If AI rallies sharply, AIYY will underperform holding AI directly. In exchange, you receive weekly income that can be substantial — but it's not guaranteed and varies with market conditions.

A significant portion of AIYY's distributions may be classified as return of capital (ROC). This is not taxable income — it reduces your cost basis instead. Check the ROC % in the latest distribution announcement above to understand how much of your "dividend" is actually your own capital being returned.

Underlying
AI
Strategy
Call option spreads on AI
Income source
Option premiums
Distribution
Weekly (Group 2, Wednesday)
Expense ratio
0.99%
Issuer
YieldMax (Tidal Financial)

About the AIYY Dividend Calculator

This AIYY dividend calculator projects how your position grows with and without DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment). Every input is prefilled with live AIYY data — current price, latest per-share distribution, detected payment frequency, and historical CAGR — so you can hit calculate immediately, or override any field to model your own assumptions.

The AIYY DRIP calculator runs two parallel scenarios: one where every distribution is reinvested into more AIYY shares, and one where distributions are taken as cash and never compounded. The gap between the two curves is the compounding premium — the extra wealth you build by letting AIYY dividends buy more shares over time. Extra monthly contributions, tax rates, and custom dividend growth rates are all supported, and every calculation runs in your browser with no additional API calls after page load.

Why this calculator is more accurate than most

Traditional DRIP calculators treat dividend-per-share and share-price as two independent quantities that grow at their own separate rates. That works fine for stocks like SCHD or KO, where management sets the payout and the stock price moves with the business. It breaks badly for option-income ETFs like MSTY, NVDY, or TSLY, where distributions are sourced from option premium on the underlying — meaning the dividend dollar is mechanically a fraction of NAV, not a separate variable. Let those two quantities compound independently and you get absurd outputs (trillion-dollar portfolios from $10K) because the implied yield silently grows to 400%+ as price collapses faster than the dollar dividend.

We solve this with two projection modes. Dividend Growth mode is the standard model — correct for dividend-growth stocks and traditional income ETFs. Yield-on-NAV mode (auto-selected when starting yield exceeds 20%) locks the forward yield and recomputes distributions each year asyield × current NAV, so as price falls, dividend-per-share falls proportionally. This matches the physics of option-income funds and produces realistic projections instead of fantasy numbers.

You can toggle between the two modes above the input form. For AIYY — a YieldMax option-income ETF — yield-on-NAV is the default and we recommend keeping it on.

The two levers that change results the most are the growth assumptions and the holding period. For a volatile, high-yield fund, a 0% or slightly negative growth assumption is usually more realistic than extrapolating a historical CAGR, because distribution levels often decay as implied volatility normalizes. For stable dividend ETFs and index funds, the 5Y CAGR is a reasonable baseline. The AIYY dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.

AIYY DRIP calculator — frequently asked questions

How does the AIYY DRIP calculator work?▾
The AIYY calculator simulates two parallel scenarios: one where every dividend is paid out as cash, and one where every dividend automatically buys more AIYY shares. It uses the current AIYY price, the most recent dividend payment, the detected payment frequency (weekly), and a historical dividend growth rate to project your balance month by month. You can override any prefilled value — custom yield, custom growth rate, extra monthly contributions, and tax drag — and the chart updates instantly in your browser with no server calls after the initial page load.
Why does the AIYY calculator prefill a yield that's different from the headline number I see elsewhere?▾
We use forward annualization — the most recent per-share payment multiplied by the payment frequency — rather than the trailing twelve-month sum. For AIYY paying weekly, that is the most honest estimate of what you would earn going forward if the next payout matches the most recent one. Headline "TTM yield" figures include payouts from many months ago, which overstates the income of ETFs whose distributions have been trending down and understates the income of ETFs whose distributions have been trending up.
What dividend growth rate should I use for AIYY?▾
YieldMax ETFs like AIYY do not have a stable dividend growth rate. Distributions are a function of the implied volatility of the underlying stock at each options roll, so they can drop 50% one month and rise 40% the next. A reasonable default for long projections is 0% growth, or a small negative number if you expect volatility to normalize downward. Our 3Y and 5Y CAGR numbers exist for reference but should not be extrapolated.
Does the AIYY calculator account for taxes?▾
Yes. You can enter a tax rate and the calculator will deduct it from each dividend before reinvesting or paying out. For AIYY, the realistic rate depends on whether your dividends are classified as qualified (lower rate), ordinary (higher rate), or return of capital (not taxed until sale). Covered-call ETFs like AIYY often produce large amounts of return of capital, which is taxed differently from regular income — consult a tax advisor for your specific situation. The calculator applies the same rate to every payment; real-world tax treatment can be more nuanced.
Can I use the AIYY calculator for retirement account projections?▾
Yes. If you plan to hold AIYY in a Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, or 401(k), set the tax rate to 0% — distributions inside those accounts are not taxed year-by-year. In a Traditional IRA you will pay ordinary income tax on withdrawals later, so the post-tax balance will be lower than what the calculator shows; in a Roth IRA, qualified withdrawals are tax-free and the calculator figures are directly applicable. The "extra monthly contributions" field is useful for modeling ongoing IRA or 401(k) payroll contributions into the same position.
How is AIYY different from buying the underlying directly?▾
AIYY does not own AI — it holds Treasury bills as collateral and sells call options on AI. The upside is capped (the calls limit how much AIYY can appreciate when AI rallies), the downside is almost fully exposed (AIYY drops along with AI in declines), and the option premium is distributed as weekly income. Over long periods, buying AI directly has historically produced more total return, but AIYY produces current income in cash, which some investors prefer.
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