RDTY Dividend Calculator
YieldMax R2000 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays weekly.
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RDTY is a YieldMax zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) covered call ETF. Every trading day, the fund sells call options on the Russell 2000 that expire that same day. Because these options have maximum time decay (theta), the fund collects premium at an accelerated rate compared to longer-dated options strategies.
Latest RDTY distribution
- Per share
- $0.2841
- Distribution rate
- 39.16%
- 30-day SEC yield
- -0.62%
- ROC %
- 62.23%
- Declared
- Aug 11, 2026
- Ex-date
- Aug 12, 2026
- Payable
- Aug 13, 2026
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How RDTY generates income
RDTY is a YieldMax zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) covered call ETF. Every trading day, the fund sells call options on the Russell 2000 that expire that same day. Because these options have maximum time decay (theta), the fund collects premium at an accelerated rate compared to longer-dated options strategies.
The daily premium collection is aggregated and distributed to shareholders weekly. The strategy benefits from the natural time decay of options — even when the market is flat, the fund earns income from the rapid erosion of option value as expiration approaches.
The risk profile differs from single-stock YieldMax ETFs. Index-based strategies have lower single-name risk but still cap upside on strong rally days. The 0DTE approach means the fund resets positions daily, which limits the damage from any single losing trade but also means distributions can be volatile depending on daily market moves. ROC percentages on 0DTE funds tend to be very high.
About the RDTY Dividend Calculator
This RDTY dividend calculator projects how your position grows with and without DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment). Every input is prefilled with live RDTY 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 RDTY DRIP calculator runs two parallel scenarios: one where every distribution is reinvested into more RDTY 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 RDTY 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 RDTY — 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 RDTY dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.