SOXY Analysis
YieldMax Target 12 Semiconductor Option Income ETF — is the distribution income, or your own capital coming back?
Distributions plus NAV growth
Over the last 1Y, SOXY paid a 9.4% distribution yield and its NAV rose 71.5% — holders kept the distributions and the price appreciation.
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 SOXY generates income
SOXY is a YieldMax Target 12 ETF that aims to deliver a 12% annualized distribution rate from a diversified portfolio of semiconductor basket stocks. This is a more conservative approach than the standard YieldMax option income funds, prioritizing sustainable income over maximum yield.
The fund uses a combination of covered call writing and other options strategies on its portfolio holdings to generate the target 12% distribution. By targeting a lower rate than the high-yield YieldMax funds, the strategy retains more upside participation in the underlying stocks.
Distributions are paid monthly rather than weekly. This makes SOXY more comparable to traditional income ETFs like JEPI or SCHD in distribution frequency, while using the options-based approach YieldMax is known for.
- Strategy
- Options income targeting 12% annually from semiconductor basket
- Distribution
- Monthly
- Expense ratio
- 0.99%
- Issuer
- YieldMax (Tidal Financial)
SOXY 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: +73.85%
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Cumulative distributions collected
Running total of per-share distributions since the first payment on record — 19 payments.
Total collected per share since inception: $11.71
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