PG Analysis
The Procter & Gamble Company — is the distribution income, or your own capital coming back?
NAV decline exceeded distributions
Over the last 1Y, PG distributed 3.0% of its price while NAV fell 4.1%. 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, PG would need a 4% 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 PG generates income
PG is an income-focused ETF issued by Procter & Gamble. Dividend King with 70 consecutive years of dividend increases — one of just five U.S. companies to cross the 70-year mark. P&G has paid a dividend every year since 1890 (over 135 consecutive years) and owns a portfolio of defensive consumer staples brands including Tide, Pampers, Gillette, Crest, and Bounty. Quarterly payer with an annual dividend raise typically announced in April; forward yield around 3% and payout ratio near 60%.
The fund is designed for investors who prioritize regular income distributions. The yield comes from a combination of dividends from the underlying holdings and any income-generating strategies the fund employs.
- Income source
- Dividends from underlying holdings
- Issuer
- Procter & Gamble
PG 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: -7.56%
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Cumulative distributions collected
Running total of per-share distributions since the first payment on record — 227 payments.
Total collected per share since inception: $131.84
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