I was actually looking for the number of days a stock may trade below the threshold of $1. Instead, I got an update on the process.
Hey now, the SEC issued new rules on shares failing the min listing requirements ($1/sh).
I like the new limitations on stock reverse splits. It definitely reduces the possibility of a DryShips entity (The George Economou led company had 6 or 7 reverse splits over less than two years)
03/28
The fourth payment of March 2025 was announced yesterday, and paid today. The payments were on a declining trend 0.1514, 0.1445, 0.085 & 0.0837. Or, put another way, the first two payouts were about 63% of the total monthly payout.
Something has changed - the weakest payout was usually in the middle of the month. The weakest payout shifted out to the end for March 2025. Lots has changed in the overall market, and lots has changed within the Mag 7 names.
During, or after, April 2025 â Decisions, decisions
03/28
The fourth payment of March 2025 was announced yesterday, and paid today. The payments were on a declining trend 0.1514, 0.1445, 0.085 & 0.0837. Or, put another way, the first two payouts were about 63% of the total monthly payout.
Something has changed - the weakest payout was usually in the middle of the month. The weakest payout shifted out to the end for March 2025
Hi @HohumYNWA,
Something changes Every Week!
YMAG owns shares of 7 different ETFâs the each invest in options on the Mag 7 components.
As the Prices of the underlying change and as the Sentiment toward each changes, the amount of options premiums will vary.
No mystery or intrigue, just normal and abnormal market actions.
Does that help you?
Gene
All holdings and some statistics on my Fool profile page
Profile - gdett2 - Motley Fool Community (Click Expand)
@gdett2 - You are correct. Something does change with YMAG every week. But, thatâs the obvious part.
However, you are incorrect when you downplay my observation. I will note that I titled the thread - The 2025 Weekly Dividend experiment. An experiment allows for the observation of changes. And often, thatâs the point of doing the experiment.
Does that help you?
HohumYNWA
04/27
While April 2025 has a few more days to go, in terms of YMAG payouts, no additional payouts. An interesting-to-me development. The weekly payouts were $0.0971, $0.0973, $0.0943 & $0.0924. But, it illustrates better on a chartâ
https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/YMAG/dividends/history
April 2025 has been the most consistent weekly payout ever (well, ⌠in 7 months).
The weekly payout format started in September 2024, actually mid September 2024. The significance? Well, the monthly total for April 2025 is $0.3811, which happens to be the second lowest monthly total ever (or 15 months). The lowest being the two payout month of Sept 2024 @ $0.3680
05/31
Another month with five YMAG payouts. The first two payouts were more in line with the April 2025 payouts. But then, the next three payouts, each saw significant increases. 1st payout 10.10 cents, 5th payout 29.29 cents.
Again, easier to illustrate with a chart
https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/YMAG/dividends/history
How will YMAG be impacted by the âTACOâ trade? Well, Nvidia (NVDA) mgmt indicated they lost revenue due to decisions on China. June will probably be when the markets sort out the newly announced 50% tariffs on Steel and Aluminum. And July 2025 is decision on EU tariffs
June 2025
The weekly payouts were downward trending this month.
06/06 - $0.2089
06/13 - $0.1709
06/23 - $0.1691
06/27 - $0.1574
Other than NVDA, and to a lesser degree, TSLA, not been paying close attention to the other five names. YMAGâs share price has been leveling off, after recovering from two more severe drops in April 2025.
July 2025
The weekly payouts flipped this month and trended up as the month progressed
07/07 $0.0554
07/11 $0.1263
07/18 $0.1515
07/25 $0.2033
The delta between high payout and low payout was quite significant this month.
Aug 2025
Five payouts this month
Somewhat bumpy payout this month. Two weak payouts, followed by the best payout. Then, the last two payouts tailed off. I know NVDA reported the last week. And, TSLA makes plans for Model Y, and Apple not keeping up on the AI side.
Sep 2025
While the month has not officially ended, the ETF payouts for the month have ended.
First payout was on the weaker side. The next three were much better. This was a month of AI deals. While all the names have direct or indirect exposure to AI, I think other AI-related names e.g. AI data center names did a lot better. Is the TikTok issue settled? I donât think any of Mag 7 holdings got much of a benefit from the TikTok deal. But Oracle (ORCL) did get a nice bounce - mentioned as the company had announcements related to both AI and TikTok
Hi @HohumYNWA,
Now it looks like they are going Weekly on everything.
Declarations for the old Weekly list is moving from Wednesday to Tuesday, so payable on Thursday instead of Friday for them.
NEW YORK, Oct. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) â YieldMaxÂŽ ETFs today announced a significant enhancement to its distribution framework, moving all single stock option income ETFs to a weekly distribution schedule. This shift reflects investor demand for more frequent income opportunities and represents the natural evolution of the YieldMaxÂŽ product line.
Weekly Distributions Declared Every Tuesday and Wednesday
YieldMaxŽ will consolidate all its ETFs, excluding the YieldMaxŽ Target 12⢠ETFs*, into two groups, with each group scheduled to declare distributions on a weekly basis.
Group 1 ETFs
Distributions declared every Tuesday, starting on Tuesday, October 14
Ex/Record Date every Wednesday, starting on Wednesday, October 15
Payment Date every Thursday, starting on Thursday, October 16
YieldMaxÂŽ Fund-of-Funds ETFs (YMAX, YMAG)
YieldMaxÂŽ Dorsey Wright ETFs (FEAT, FIVY)
YieldMaxÂŽ Ultra ETFs (ULTY, SLTY)
YieldMaxÂŽ Portfolio ETFs (LFGY, CHPY, GPTY)
YieldMaxÂŽ 0DTE ETFs (QDTY, SDTY, RDTY)
Group 2 ETFs
Distributions declared every Wednesday, starting on Wednesday, October 15
Ex/Record Date every Thursday, starting on Thursday, October 16
Payment Date every Friday, starting on Friday, October 17
YieldMaxÂŽ Single-Stock Option Income ETFs (ABNY, AIYY, AMDY, AMZY, APLY, BABO, BRKC, CONY, CRCO, CVNY, DISO, DRAY, FBY, GDXY, GMEY, GOOY, HIYY, HOOY, JPMO, MARO, MRNY, MSFO, MSTY, NFLY, NVDY, OARK, PLTY, PYPY, RBLY, RDYY, SMCY, SNOY, TSLY, TSMY, XOMO, XYZY, YBIT)
YieldMaxÂŽ Short Single-Stock Option Income ETFs (FIAT, CRSH, DIPS
Does that help you?
Gene
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Thank you for the update.
I own YMAG, YMAX and NVDY. So, two of my three YieldMax holdings were already paying weekly. I guess I will have to see how things change with NVDY
All YieldMax Magnificent Seven member ETFs have moved to a weekly payout. Will this affect something in the YMAG payout? At this time, too early to know. All we have new datapoints. Another month with 5 payouts.
Nothing much to add. Maybe, YMAG, thanks for the payout.
YMAGâs Nov 2025 payouts
Four additional datapoints. Just an observation - a $0.20+ used to occur a little more often before the seven names shifted to a weekly cadence.
Well, my full year of YMAG ownership ended on 12/31/25.
YMAG share price on 01/01/25 $19.25
YMAG share price on 12/31/25 $14.23
During the year, weekly payments $7.438 in dividend payments.
Going in, I had expected YMAG price erosion. Like many individual stocks, YMAG had a downward trend through âLiberation Dayâ, and then a gradual recovery. YMAGâs price recovery lasted through late Oct 2025. Share price generally trending lower through the end of 2025.
For the full year of 2025, a position in YMAG would certainly have provided the income. On a net basis, the YMAG position would have ended black, with a 12% - 13% return (using the end points, and lump dividend assumption). I did a similar âend points & div-to-date paymentsâ calculation in mid Sept 2025, and return was around 21% 2025 has ended, so the YMAG experiment is over. Certainly not my worst holding in 2025, and an idea I would consider utilizing in the future. YMMV.
If charted from 12/30/24 through 12/24/25, Bar Chart suggests a total gain (with divs backed in) of 16.22% could have been obtained.
Hohum,
Actually, the returns from covered call ETFs are worse than promised, and perhaps thatâs due to the impact of fund expenses as the managers take their cut off the top before distributing profits to shareholders. To see how this might be so, pull a yearâs worth of historical data for MAGS, which is the underlying for YMAG, and compare that with the data for YMAG.
According to Yahoo Finance, on Jan 02, 2025 MAGS closed at 53.38. On Jan 02, 2026, itâs trading around 66.61, offering a 24.% gain despite the mid-year share price dip.
On that same pair of starting and ending dates, YMAGâs beginning and ending numbers are 11.95 and 14.08 resp, or a 17.82% gain. The necessary conclusion is that trading the underlying offers better money than trading a derivative of the underlying.
Note: The historical prices Iâm re-quoting from Yahoo Finance have backed in the divs paid. They call it âadjusted priceâ. But that adjusted price reflects the total gains/losses a would-be investor would have achieved between any two dates of ownership, not just NAV gains/losses.
Iâve run this comparison on lots of CC ETFs. When benchmarked against their underlying, CC ETFs always return less total money. In short, as usual, this is Wall Street benefiting from its endless scams. (Remember âstructured productsâ a couple years back âwell, maybe 20 or soâ that offered a guaranteed upside gain and a supposedly limited downside?)
Charlie
@Otsoa - Happy New Year and welcome to the Motley Fool boards.
I have an issue with your terminology. Specifically, the word âpromisedâ in the context of investments. YieldMax did not PROMISE me anything with respect to my YMAG investment. Or, any other YieldMax investment product. Here is the YieldMax webpageâ
Can you explain where you interpreted something was âpromisedâ from the paragraph above? Regarding the fees, yes - higher than other ETFs. If high fees are a factor in your investment criteria, then that factors into YOUR investment decision. But, I accepted that as part of an options-related strategy when I decided to invest in YMAG.
