QQQI dividend history and calculator: every monthly payout since 2024
QQQI has paid a distribution every month since February 2024, each one close to 1.2% of its share price. Here is the full record by year, the last twelve payouts, and what the payout means for total return.
QQQI payouts by year
2024 (February to December, 11 payouts): 6.73 a share in all, about 13.2% of the share price summed across the ex-dates. 2025 (12 payouts): 7.44 a share, about 14.3%. 2026 through the October 21 payout (10 payouts): 6.36 a share, about 11.8%.
Every payout has been between 1.16% and 1.28% of the share price on its ex-date. The fund pays a near constant share of its price, so the amount per share moves with the Nasdaq. The lowest payout so far was 0.531 a share in April 2025, right after the sell-off; the highest was 0.659 in May 2026.
QQQI dividend calculator
Income calculator: pick a fund and an amount (or a number of shares) to see a year of payouts at the latest rate, the last twelve months of payouts, and how much it would take to reach a monthly income goal. It runs in your browser with JavaScript on. The figures, through the 2026-11-13 close, with total return measured with every payout reinvested, from each fund's first close:
| Fund | Payouts a year | Trailing 12 month yield | Total return a year | Index | Index a year | Share price since launch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QQQI | 12 | 14.9% | 16.2% | QQQ | 18.9% | 2.6% |
| JEPQ | 12 | 12.4% | 14.2% | QQQ | 18.0% | 10.0% |
| GPIQ | 12 | 10.9% | 22.9% | QQQ | 25.6% | 36.7% |
| QDTE | 52 | 45.9% | 17.0% | QQQ | 17.7% | -42.9% |
| QYLD | 12 | 12.1% | 8.9% | QQQ | 19.1% | -23.4% |
| SPYI | 12 | 12.0% | 14.2% | SPY | 18.0% | 6.8% |
| JEPI | 12 | 7.9% | 11.4% | SPY | 17.2% | 16.1% |
| GPIX | 12 | 8.4% | 21.5% | SPY | 23.5% | 40.0% |
| XYLD | 12 | 10.3% | 8.4% | SPY | 14.8% | -4.8% |
| DIVO | 12 | 6.4% | 12.5% | SPY | 14.7% | 89.7% |
| SCHD | 4 | 2.9% | 13.8% | SPY | 14.8% | 184.3% |
| IWMI | 12 | 14.8% | 14.7% | IWM | 15.8% | -2.3% |
| MSTY | 52 | 156.7% | 9.5% | MSTR | 17.9% | -89.6% |
| NVDY | 52 | 65.1% | 41.9% | NVDA | 64.3% | -55.5% |
| TSLY | 52 | 74.7% | 9.2% | TSLA | 21.0% | -89.4% |
| CONY | 52 | 138.2% | 1.2% | COIN | 15.8% | -93.2% |
| ULTY | 53 | 101.9% | -1.2% | QQQ | 18.2% | -89.4% |
| BTCI | 12 | 34.5% | -0.3% | IBIT | 1.1% | -44.1% |
The last twelve payouts
Ex-date, amount per share, and that amount as a share of the day's closing price: November 26, 2025: 0.630 (1.17%). December 24, 2025: 0.641 (1.18%). January 21, 2026: 0.636 (1.19%). February 18: 0.614 (1.18%). March 18: 0.609 (1.19%). April 22: 0.630 (1.18%). May 20: 0.659 (1.18%). June 16: 0.657 (1.17%). July 22: 0.635 (1.17%). August 19: 0.652 (1.20%). September 16: 0.634 (1.19%). October 21: 0.634 (1.17%).
QQQI usually goes ex-dividend in the third or fourth week of the month. Of 33 payouts so far, 15 were lower than the one before, so the amount is not a fixed or rising dividend.
What the payout means
A share of QQQI closed near 50.67 in this pull, about where it started in early 2024. Almost everything an owner earned came through these payouts, which is the covered call trade-off: the calls it sells turn most of the Nasdaq's growth into monthly cash. Measured with every payout reinvested, QQQI returned about 16.2% a year since launch against QQQ's 19.0%; the QQQI review has the full comparison.
Much of what QQQI has paid has been classified as return of capital, which changes when tax is due rather than whether it was earned. The fund's own tax notices have the current split.
A quick income check
To estimate a year of QQQI income: shares held x the last payout x 12. At 1.17% to 1.20% of the price a month, that is roughly 14% of the position a year at today's price. The number moves with the market, falls after a sell-off, and says nothing about the share price, so it is a cash-flow estimate, not a return.
How we measured
Daily closing prices from Yahoo Finance through midday November 13, 2026, split adjusted. Total return reinvests each distribution on its ex-date. Each fund is compared with what it tracks on exactly the same days, from the fund's first close. No taxes or trading costs are included, and past returns do not predict future ones. This is a measurement, not advice for anyone's account.
Measured from daily closes and distributions, every payout reinvested, each fund against its index on the same days. Past returns do not predict future ones. This is education, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.