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YBTC Dividend Calculator

Roundhill Bitcoin Covered Call Strategy ETF — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays weekly.

YBTC Dividend Calculator

= $6.8203 / share / year

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

1Y: -54.6%

years
Portfolio Growth

No DRIP vs DRIP

Portfolio Value$10$240Total Dividends$6.4K$11.8KAnnual Dividend$3$78YoC0.03%0.77%

DRIP Advantage

Total invested: $10.0K

+2358.75%

$230.45 more

Income Goal
/ month

Reached in year 1

YBTC crosses $300.00/yr ($25.00/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 YBTC?

YBTC 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.

YBTC Real Yield

Headline yield adjusted for NAV erosion (1Y)

HeadlineReal76.5%→-19.9%
NAV -54.6%

96% of the headline yield has been offset by share price decline over the past 1Y.

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YBTC Dividend History

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How YBTC generates income

YBTC 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.

YBTC is issued by Roundhill and has been one of the established players in the covered-call ETF space. Compared to YieldMax's single-stock approach, YBTC 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
Roundhill

About the YBTC Dividend Calculator

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

Yield on Cost — the metric that matters for YBTC 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 YBTC 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 YBTC position bought today might yield 76.5% 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 YBTC 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 YBTC dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.

YBTC DRIP calculator — frequently asked questions

How does the YBTC DRIP calculator work?▾
The YBTC calculator simulates two parallel scenarios: one where every dividend is paid out as cash, and one where every dividend automatically buys more YBTC shares. It uses the current YBTC 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 YBTC 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 YBTC 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 YBTC?▾
The calculator offers historical 1Y, 3Y, 5Y, and 10Y dividend CAGR figures for YBTC where data is available. For long projections, the 5Y number is usually more representative than shorter windows. If YBTC 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 YBTC 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 YBTC, 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 YBTC 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 YBTC calculator for retirement account projections?▾
Yes. If you plan to hold YBTC 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 YBTC different from buying the underlying directly?▾
YBTC 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; YBTC is better when you want current income or expect flat-to-modest returns.
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