FEAT Analysis
YieldMax Dorsey Wright Featured 5 Income ETF — is the distribution income, or your own capital coming back?
NAV decline exceeded distributions
Over the last 1Y, FEAT distributed 77.8% of its price while NAV fell 49.3%. The decline was larger than everything paid out, so a holder across the full window is down on a total-return basis despite the distributions.
From here, FEAT would need a 97% price gain just to return to where it started the window — before any further distributions are counted.
This verdict is generated from fixed thresholds applied to live price and distribution data, not written per fund. Two funds with the same profile always get the same wording.
How FEAT generates income
FEAT is a YieldMax portfolio-level option income ETF. Rather than writing options on a single stock, it sells options on a basket of stocks in the dorsey wright featured 5 sector to generate weekly distributions.
The diversified approach spreads risk across multiple positions while still capturing the elevated option premiums that come from holding volatile sectors. Distributions are funded by the collected option premiums and may vary week to week depending on the implied volatility of the underlying holdings.
As with all YieldMax ETFs, a portion of distributions may be classified as return of capital (ROC). Check the latest distribution announcement for the current ROC breakdown.
- Strategy
- Portfolio-level options on dorsey wright featured 5
- Income source
- Option premiums
- Distribution
- Weekly (Group 1, Tuesday)
- Expense ratio
- 0.99%
- Issuer
- YieldMax (Tidal Financial)
FEAT price return since first distribution
The capital half of total return. Read it against the cumulative distributions below — the two together are what a holder actually earned.
Cumulative price return: -61.69%
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Cumulative distributions collected
Running total of per-share distributions since the first payment on record — 44 payments.
Total collected per share since inception: $24.40
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