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ULTY Dividend Calculator

YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays weekly.

ULTY Dividend Calculator

= $21.0392 / share / year

0% = yield stays constant. Negative models normalization (e.g. -10%/yr).

1Y: -47.7%

years
Portfolio Growth

No DRIP vs DRIP

Portfolio Value$15$10.3KTotal Dividends$13.7K$93.0KAnnual Dividend$10$6.8KYoC0.10%67.56%

DRIP Advantage

Total invested: $10.0K

+66.9K%

$10.3K more

Income Goal
/ month

Reached in year 1

ULTY crosses $7,800.00/yr ($650.00/mo) of dividend income in year 1 of the projection. Goal auto-suggested from your inputs — bump it up to model a stretch target.

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Scenarios

Three realistic paths for high-yield funds: yield holds, yield compresses, yield normalizes. Click any card to load it.

What is ULTY?

ULTY is a fund-of-funds that holds the highest-yielding YieldMax ETFs and passes through their distributions. Instead of picking individual YieldMax funds, ULTY gives you concentrated exposure to the ones with the fattest payouts — typically the most volatile underlyings like MSTR, COIN, and TSLA.

Latest ULTY distribution

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Per share
$0.2729
Distribution rate
30.22%
30-day SEC yield
0.18%
ROC %
100.00%
Declared
May 12, 2026
Ex-date
May 13, 2026
Payable
May 14, 2026
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ULTY Real Yield

Headline yield adjusted for NAV erosion (1Y)

HeadlineReal42.3%→-25.5%
NAV -47.7%

68% of the headline yield has been offset by share price decline over the past 1Y.

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ULTY Dividend History

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How ULTY generates income

ULTY is a fund-of-funds that holds the highest-yielding YieldMax ETFs and passes through their distributions. Instead of picking individual YieldMax funds, ULTY gives you concentrated exposure to the ones with the fattest payouts — typically the most volatile underlyings like MSTR, COIN, and TSLA.

The result is one of the highest headline yields in the ETF universe, often exceeding 70-100% annualized. But there's a catch: the ROC on ULTY is almost always 100% or very close to it. This means nearly all of your "dividend" is return of capital — the fund is returning your own money while the underlying NAV erodes.

This happens because ULTY is a layer on top of other YieldMax funds that themselves have high ROC. The compounding effect means ULTY's distributions are almost entirely capital return. Your cost basis goes down with each distribution, and if you sell at a price lower than your adjusted cost basis, you realize a capital gain even if the share price is below what you paid.

ULTY makes sense for investors who understand the ROC mechanics, want maximum weekly cash flow, and are comfortable with significant NAV erosion over time. It's a cash-extraction tool, not a traditional income investment. For those who want fund-of-funds exposure with more price participation, YMAX (which holds the full YieldMax universe) or YMAG (Magnificent 7 only) may be better fits.

Strategy
Fund-of-funds (highest-yield YieldMax ETFs)
Typical ROC
~100% (nearly all distributions are capital return)
Distribution
Weekly (Group 1, Tuesday)
Expense ratio
0.99%
Comparison
YMAX (full universe) / YMAG (Mag 7 only)

About the ULTY Dividend Calculator

This ULTY dividend calculator projects how your position grows with and without DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment). Every input is prefilled with live ULTY 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 ULTY DRIP calculator runs two parallel scenarios: one where every distribution is reinvested into more ULTY 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 ULTY 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 ULTY — 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 ULTY dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.

ULTY DRIP calculator — frequently asked questions

How does the ULTY DRIP calculator work?▾
The ULTY calculator simulates two parallel scenarios: one where every dividend is paid out as cash, and one where every dividend automatically buys more ULTY shares. It uses the current ULTY price, the most recent dividend payment, the detected payment frequency (weekly), 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 ULTY 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 ULTY paying weekly, 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 ULTY?▾
YieldMax ETFs like ULTY do not have a stable dividend growth rate. Distributions are a function of the implied volatility of the underlying stock at each options roll, so they can drop 50% one month and rise 40% the next. A reasonable default for long projections is 0% growth, or a small negative number if you expect volatility to normalize downward. Our 3Y and 5Y CAGR numbers exist for reference but should not be extrapolated.
Does the ULTY 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 ULTY, 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 ULTY 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 ULTY calculator for retirement account projections?▾
Yes. If you plan to hold ULTY 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 ULTY different from buying the underlying directly?▾
ULTY 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; ULTY is better when you want current income or expect flat-to-modest returns.
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