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SPYI Dividend Calculator

NEOS S&P 500 High Income ETF — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays monthly.

SPYI Dividend Calculator

Yield: 11.68%

1Y: 9.1% | 3Y: 3.9%

years
Portfolio Growth

Projection exceeds realistic bounds

These results assume dividends and price growth continue at the same rate for 15 years, which is unlikely for high-yield ETFs. In practice, funds restructure, yields normalize, and NAV erosion limits compounding. Try a shorter time horizon or lower growth rates.

No DRIP vs DRIP

Portfolio Value$17.7K$95301965.56BTotal Dividends$879.9K$1902398051.29BAnnual Dividend$424.9K$2291167600.00BYoC4249.20%22911675531.2M%

DRIP Advantage

Total invested: $10.0K

+539199904.7M%

$95301.97T more

Income Goal
/ month

Reached in year 15

SPYI crosses $1237131.51T/yr ($103094.29T/mo) of dividend income in year 15 of the projection. Goal auto-suggested from your inputs — bump it up to model a stretch target.

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Scenarios

Three paths based on historical CAGRs. Click any card to load it.

What is SPYI?

SPYI uses a covered call strategy to generate income. The fund holds a portfolio of stocks (or tracks an index) and systematically sells call options against those holdings. The premiums collected from selling these options are the primary source of the fund's distributions.

SPYI Real Yield

Headline yield adjusted for NAV appreciation (1Y)

HeadlineReal11.6%→12.6%
NAV +9.1%
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SPYI Dividend History

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How SPYI generates income

SPYI uses a covered call strategy to generate income. The fund holds a portfolio of stocks (or tracks an index) and systematically sells call options against those holdings. The premiums collected from selling these options are the primary source of the fund's distributions.

When the market is flat or mildly bullish, covered-call funds perform well — you collect the option premium on top of any dividends from the underlying holdings. When the market rallies strongly, your gains are capped at the strike price of the sold calls. This is the fundamental trade-off of covered-call strategies: steady income in exchange for capped upside.

SPYI is issued by NEOS and has been one of the established players in the covered-call ETF space. Compared to YieldMax's single-stock approach, SPYI writes options on a broader index, which results in lower but more stable distributions.

Strategy
Index covered call writing
Income source
Option premiums + underlying dividends
Issuer
NEOS

About the SPYI Dividend Calculator

This SPYI dividend calculator projects how your position grows with and without DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment). Every input is prefilled with live SPYI 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 SPYI DRIP calculator runs two parallel scenarios: one where every distribution is reinvested into more SPYI 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 SPYI 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 SPYI, dividend-growth mode is the default and matches how most investors think about this asset.

Yield on Cost — the metric that matters for SPYI long-term holders

The yearly projection table includes a YoC (Yield on Cost) column. Yield on cost is your annual dividend income divided by what you originally paid — not by what SPYI is worth today. For a dividend-growth ETF, this is the single most important long-term number, because it reflects how the rising payout compounds against your fixed cost basis. A SPYI position bought today might yield 11.6% up front, but at historical dividend growth rates it can compound to a 7-12% YoC over 15-20 years without you adding a dollar. That is the "snowball" effect long-term SPYI holders are paying for, and it is invisible if you only look at headline yield.

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 SPYI dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.

SPYI DRIP calculator — frequently asked questions

How does the SPYI DRIP calculator work?▾
The SPYI calculator simulates two parallel scenarios: one where every dividend is paid out as cash, and one where every dividend automatically buys more SPYI shares. It uses the current SPYI price, the most recent dividend payment, the detected payment frequency (monthly), and a historical dividend growth rate to project your balance month by month. You can override any prefilled value — custom yield, custom growth rate, extra monthly contributions, and tax drag — and the chart updates instantly in your browser with no server calls after the initial page load.
Why does the SPYI calculator prefill a yield that's different from the headline number I see elsewhere?▾
We use forward annualization — the most recent per-share payment multiplied by the payment frequency — rather than the trailing twelve-month sum. For SPYI paying monthly, that is the most honest estimate of what you would earn going forward if the next payout matches the most recent one. Headline "TTM yield" figures include payouts from many months ago, which overstates the income of ETFs whose distributions have been trending down and understates the income of ETFs whose distributions have been trending up.
What dividend growth rate should I use for SPYI?▾
The calculator offers historical 1Y, 3Y, 5Y, and 10Y dividend CAGR figures for SPYI where data is available. For long projections, the 5Y number is usually more representative than shorter windows. If SPYI is a covered-call or high-yield fund, be cautious — high headline yields often come paired with flat or negative dividend growth, and a 5Y dividend CAGR calculated from a shrinking distribution can be misleading.
Does the SPYI calculator account for taxes?▾
Yes. You can enter a tax rate and the calculator will deduct it from each dividend before reinvesting or paying out. For SPYI, the realistic rate depends on whether your dividends are classified as qualified (lower rate), ordinary (higher rate), or return of capital (not taxed until sale). Covered-call ETFs like SPYI often produce large amounts of return of capital, which is taxed differently from regular income — consult a tax advisor for your specific situation. The calculator applies the same rate to every payment; real-world tax treatment can be more nuanced.
Can I use the SPYI calculator for retirement account projections?▾
Yes. If you plan to hold SPYI in a Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, or 401(k), set the tax rate to 0% — distributions inside those accounts are not taxed year-by-year. In a Traditional IRA you will pay ordinary income tax on withdrawals later, so the post-tax balance will be lower than what the calculator shows; in a Roth IRA, qualified withdrawals are tax-free and the calculator figures are directly applicable. The "extra monthly contributions" field is useful for modeling ongoing IRA or 401(k) payroll contributions into the same position.
How is SPYI different from buying the underlying directly?▾
SPYI uses a covered-call strategy — it owns the underlying securities and sells call options against them to generate income. This caps the upside in strong rallies but cushions drawdowns slightly with option premium. Direct ownership of the underlying index typically produces higher total return in bull markets; SPYI is better when you want current income or expect flat-to-modest returns.

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