YMAX Dividend Calculator
YieldMax Universe Fund of Option Income ETFs — Project your returns with dividend reinvestment (DRIP). Pays weekly.
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Three realistic paths for high-yield funds: yield holds, yield compresses, yield normalizes. Click any card to load it.
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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YMAX holds other YieldMax ETFs and passes through their distributions. The basket is broader than the single-stock funds alone — as well as names like NVDY, TSLY and CONY it has held Target 12, Target 25 and 0DTE index products — so it spreads across the range rather than concentrating on the highest-yielding names.
Latest YMAX distribution
- Per share
- $0.0608
- Distribution rate
- 40.84%
- 30-day SEC yield
- 85.00%
- ROC %
- 45.69%
- Declared
- Aug 11, 2026
- Ex-date
- Aug 12, 2026
- Payable
- Aug 13, 2026
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How YMAX generates income
YMAX holds other YieldMax ETFs and passes through their distributions. The basket is broader than the single-stock funds alone — as well as names like NVDY, TSLY and CONY it has held Target 12, Target 25 and 0DTE index products — so it spreads across the range rather than concentrating on the highest-yielding names.
The headline yield is lower than ULTY because the portfolio includes lower-volatility names like MSFO (Microsoft), APLY (Apple), and JPO (JPMorgan) alongside the high-flyers. This diversification means YMAX's NAV tends to be more stable than ULTY's, but the weekly distributions are correspondingly smaller.
ROC on YMAX is typically moderate (20-60%) rather than the near-100% you see on ULTY. This reflects the blended nature of the portfolio — some underlying funds generate genuine option income while others are distributing capital return.
YMAX is the "set and forget" option for investors who want broad YieldMax exposure without having to pick individual funds or worry about any single stock blowing up their income stream.
About the YMAX Dividend Calculator
This YMAX dividend calculator projects how your position grows with and without DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment). Every input is prefilled with live YMAX 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 YMAX DRIP calculator runs two parallel scenarios: one where every distribution is reinvested into more YMAX 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 YMAX 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 YMAX — 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 YMAX dividend history page shows every past payment in detail, and the total return analyzer strips out NAV erosion to show your real yield.