PLTY Dividend Calculator
YieldMax PLTR Option Income Strategy ETF — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays weekly.
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This projection holds the yield constant. Deciding whether that assumption is reasonable means looking at what drives the payout: the underlying company or holdings, their earnings outlook and volatility. Koyfin lets you compare that assumption with the stock's actual history and outlook.
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PLTY sells call option spreads on Palantir Technologies (PLTR) to generate weekly distributions. Palantir has become a retail investor favorite due to its AI/defense narrative and the stock's extreme volatility — which is exactly what makes PLTY one of the higher-yielding YieldMax funds.
Latest PLTY distribution
- Per share
- $0.7460
- Distribution rate
- 100.38%
- 30-day SEC yield
- 3.09%
- ROC %
- 97.91%
- Declared
- Aug 12, 2026
- Ex-date
- Aug 13, 2026
- Payable
- Aug 14, 2026
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How PLTY generates income
PLTY sells call option spreads on Palantir Technologies (PLTR) to generate weekly distributions. Palantir has become a retail investor favorite due to its AI/defense narrative and the stock's extreme volatility — which is exactly what makes PLTY one of the higher-yielding YieldMax funds.
PLTR's implied volatility tends to spike around earnings, government contract announcements, and broader AI market moves. During these spikes, PLTY's weekly distributions can be outsized. In calmer periods, they moderate. The fund launched in 2024 during the height of PLTR's retail enthusiasm.
The ROC on PLTY has been relatively low compared to other YieldMax funds — meaning a larger share of the distribution has been genuine option income rather than capital return. This can change as market conditions shift, so always check the latest announcement data above.
PLTY is effectively a bet that Palantir remains volatile but doesn't have explosive, sustained rallies that you'd miss out on due to the call cap. If you think PLTR is fairly valued but will continue swinging, PLTY lets you monetize that volatility weekly.
About the PLTY Dividend Calculator
This PLTY dividend calculator projects how your position grows with and without DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment). Every input is prefilled with live PLTY 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 PLTY DRIP calculator runs two parallel scenarios: one where every distribution is reinvested into more PLTY 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 PLTY 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 PLTY — 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 PLTY dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.