This March snapshot is the type of screen where I try to slow myself down. The payout numbers are large enough that it is easy to focus on the income column first, but that is not how I want to evaluate these funds.
For YieldMax, I mainly want to know three things: how large the trailing payout has been, how much the price base has moved, and whether the payout support risk flag is clean or not. The screen is not meant to identify the best fund. It is meant to show which rows require more caution before I would treat them as income holdings.
The current list includes CHPY, CONY, FEAT, FIVY, GDXY, GPTY, LFGY, MINY, MSTY, NVDY, QDTY, RDTY, RNTY, SDTY, SLTY, SOXY, TSLY, ULTY, YMAG, and YMAX.
Some rows are incomplete where the visible snapshot did not include enough data. Those values are shown as N/A.
| Fund Ticker | Dividend TTM | Price CAGR | Total Return CAGR | Payout Support Risk | Stability | Dividend TTM (MoM) | Price Growth (MoM) | Total Return CAGR (MoM) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHPY | 37.75% | 34.52% | N/A | NO | LOW | 32.34% (+5.41pp) | 49.23% (-14.71pp) | N/A |
| CONY | 211.72% | -53.59% | N/A | YES | LOW | 212.47% (-0.75pp) | -53.63% (+0.04pp) | N/A |
| FEAT | 92.24% | -54.10% | N/A | YES | LOW | 85.38% (+6.86pp) | -54.12% (+0.02pp) | N/A |
| FIVY | 53.87% | -44.41% | N/A | YES | LOW | 50.94% (+2.93pp) | -44.07% (-0.34pp) | N/A |
| GDXY | 61.55% | -17.19% | N/A | YES | LOW | 49.11% (+12.44pp) | -4.67% (-12.52pp) | N/A |
| GPTY | 41.17% | -23.60% | N/A | YES | LOW | 41.04% (+0.13pp) | -22.81% (-0.79pp) | N/A |
| LFGY | 103.58% | -53.81% | N/A | YES | LOW | 103.29% (+0.29pp) | -53.73% (-0.08pp) | N/A |
| MINY | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| MSTY | 298.76% | -53.38% | N/A | YES | LOW | 299.12% (-0.36pp) | -53.08% (-0.30pp) | N/A |
| NVDY | 72.80% | -13.77% | N/A | YES | LOW | 85.41% (-12.61pp) | -13.42% (-0.35pp) | N/A |
| QDTY | 35.97% | -23.84% | N/A | YES | LOW | 33.28% (+2.69pp) | -19.50% (-4.34pp) | N/A |
| RDTY | 47.33% | -25.28% | N/A | YES | LOW | 41.42% (+5.91pp) | -19.92% (-5.36pp) | N/A |
| RNTY | 9.43% | 5.00% | N/A | SUSPECT | LOW | 7.72% (+1.71pp) | 3.48% (-8.48pp) | N/A |
| SDTY | 27.60% | -18.37% | N/A | YES | LOW | 25.62% (+1.98pp) | -13.91% (-4.46pp) | N/A |
| SLTY | 49.77% | -58.34% | N/A | YES | LOW | 45.19% (+4.58pp) | -65.38% (+7.04pp) | N/A |
| SOXY | 9.48% | 19.21% | N/A | NO | LOW | 8.60% (+0.88pp) | 27.30% (-8.09pp) | N/A |
| TSLY | 97.14% | -44.19% | N/A | YES | LOW | 93.77% (+3.37pp) | -43.27% (-0.92pp) | N/A |
| ULTY | 131.14% | -58.69% | N/A | YES | LOW | 131.52% (-0.38pp) | -57.50% (-1.19pp) | N/A |
| YMAG | 54.98% | -20.97% | N/A | YES | LOW | 53.43% (+1.55pp) | -19.09% (-1.88pp) | N/A |
| YMAX | 84.96% | -34.54% | N/A | YES | LOW | 82.73% (+2.23pp) | -32.69% (-1.85pp) | N/A |
What I noticed
MSTY is the most extreme row in this March screen, with 298.76% Dividend TTM and -53.38% Price CAGR. CONY is similar at 211.72% Dividend TTM with -53.59% Price CAGR. Both are marked YES for payout support risk, so I would not read either number as simple income.
ULTY and LFGY also show the same pattern. ULTY has 131.14% Dividend TTM with -58.69% Price CAGR, while LFGY has 103.58% Dividend TTM with -53.81% Price CAGR. These are the kinds of rows where the payout column and the price column need to be read together.
TSLY and FEAT are not as extreme as MSTY or CONY, but the tradeoff is still visible. TSLY shows 97.14% Dividend TTM with -44.19% Price CAGR, and FEAT shows 92.24% Dividend TTM with -54.10% Price CAGR. Both are marked YES for payout support risk.
CHPY and SOXY look different in this snapshot. CHPY shows 37.75% Dividend TTM, 34.52% Price CAGR, and payout support risk marked NO. SOXY shows 9.48% Dividend TTM, 19.21% Price CAGR, and payout support risk marked NO. They are not the largest payout rows, but their price behavior is much cleaner in the visible table.
RNTY is not in the cleanest group, but it is less severe than the rows marked YES. It shows 9.43% Dividend TTM, 5.00% Price CAGR, and payout support risk marked SUSPECT.
Most rows are marked LOW stability, which is another reason I would not evaluate the group by yield alone. MINY is incomplete in this snapshot and should not be compared directly yet.
My takeaway from this March screen is simple: for YieldMax funds, the useful question is not “which one pays the most?” It is “which payout is paired with a price trend and risk flag I can actually understand?”
Note: Metrics are exported from Dividend Decoder as a partial snapshot; not investment advice.