SPYI dividend history and calculator: every monthly payout since 2022
SPYI has paid a distribution every month since September 2022, almost always very close to 1.0% of its share price. Here is the record by year, the last twelve payouts, and what the payout means for total return.
SPYI payouts by year
2022 (September to December, 4 payouts): 1.89 a share, about 4.0% of the price summed across the ex-dates. 2023 (11 payouts): 5.31 a share, about 11.1%. 2024 (12 payouts): 6.12 a share, about 12.2%. 2025 (12 payouts): 6.15 a share, about 12.1%. 2026 through the October 21 payout (10 payouts): 5.27 a share, about 10.0%.
Every payout has been between 0.95% and 1.10% of the share price on its ex-date. Like QQQI, SPYI pays a near constant share of its price, so the amount per share moves with the S&P 500. The lowest payout was 0.461 a share in December 2022 and the highest 0.556 in August 2024. Of 49 payouts so far, 20 were lower than the one before.
SPYI 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: 0.522 (1.00%). December 24, 2025: 0.532 (1.00%). January 21, 2026: 0.531 (1.02%). February 18: 0.522 (1.00%). March 18: 0.510 (1.02%). April 22: 0.525 (1.01%). May 20: 0.535 (1.01%). June 16: 0.531 (1.00%). July 22: 0.530 (1.00%). August 19: 0.542 (1.01%). September 16: 0.534 (1.02%). October 21: 0.509 (0.95%).
Payout and total return
SPYI closed near 52.15 in this pull. Its share price rose only about 1.6% a year since launch, so most of the return came through the payouts. With every payout reinvested it returned about 14.2% a year against SPY's 18.0% on the same days; the SPYI review has the year by year comparison.
A quick income estimate: shares held x the last payout x 12, or about 12% of the position a year at today's price. It moves with the market 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, 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. Payouts through November 13, 2026; total return from the November 12 pull through the November 11 close.
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.