UPS Analysis
United Parcel Service, Inc. — is the distribution income, or your own capital coming back?
Distributions plus NAV growth
Over the last 1Y, UPS paid a 6.3% distribution yield and its NAV rose 23.3% — 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 UPS generates income
UPS is an income-focused ETF issued by UPS. Global package-delivery and logistics company competing head-to-head with FedEx and Amazon Logistics. 17 consecutive years of dividend increases with annual dividend of $6.56/share and a forward yield around 6.5% — elevated because the stock has underperformed amid margin compression post-Amazon volume shift. Payout ratio ~97% of earnings is the key concern: UPS is paying out nearly all of what it earns, leaving little room for further increases until earnings recover.
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
- UPS
UPS 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: -44.31%
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Cumulative distributions collected
Running total of per-share distributions since the first payment on record — 107 payments.
Total collected per share since inception: $77.94
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