YieldMax AMZN Option Income Strategy ETF
$10.32−0.16 (−1.53%)
- Expense ratio
- 1.09%
- Fund size
- $219M
- 1Y return
- +7.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 52.43%
- Holdings
- 7
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $10.59
- 52W range
The ETF.net AMZY Grade
Score 50 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 16Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 60Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 71Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on AMZY
CAMZY never buys a share of Amazon. It builds the exposure with options, sells calls against it, and hands the premium to shareholders as income. The price of that paycheck is a ceiling on the upside.
The Fund seeks current income while providing exposure to Amazon.com, Inc.'s common-stock share price, subject to a limit on potential gains.
Why people hold it
- Income is the mandate, not a byproduct: the fund targets current income from Amazon-linked option exposure and pays it out on a recurring schedule instead of reinvesting.yieldmaxetfs.com
- Execution is a strength. Among 64 single-stock option-income funds, its spreads and day-to-day tradability rank near the top of the group.
- At 1.09%, it charges less than AMZP, the other Amazon-referenced income wrapper in its cohort, at 1.15%.
- Running since 2023 and sitting in the upper half of its cohort, with solid marks for risk control and operational staying power.
Worth knowing
- The trade is explicit in the prospectus: gains on the Amazon exposure are capped, while the downside is not. Big rallies happen without you.yieldmaxetfs.com
- Payouts come from option premiums, so they move with Amazon's volatility. No fixed rate is declared, and the size of each distribution varies.
- 1.09% a year is a real bite, roughly the 1.07% median for this cohort. Option-income wrappers are an expensive aisle across the board.
AMZY Holdings
- Other
- 7
- 107%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 05/15/2027
Geography
AMZY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | AMZY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +6.5% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | +9.1% |
| 1 year | +7.8% |
| 3 years | +22.6% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | AMZY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +6.5% | |
| 2025 | +10.5% | |
| 2024 | +35.4% | |
| 2023 | +18.2% |
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AMZY Dividends
- 52.43%
- $5.50
- $0.05 per share
- Weekly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.07 |
AMZY Risk
- 23.5%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.72
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −23.6%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.88
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AMZY Cost
- The middle half of Single-Stock Option Income funds
- Median 1.07%
58 of the 71 Single-Stock Option Income funds charge less.