YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF
$69.81−1.38 (−1.94%)
History starts Apr 3, 2025.
- Expense ratio
- 1.03%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +94.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 38.29%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.7M sh
- NAV per share
- $69.68
- 52W range
The ETF.net CHPY Grade
Score 47 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 23Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 84Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on CHPY
CSemiconductors, run for cash flow. CHPY holds a focused basket of US-listed chip stocks and sells options against them, turning one of the market's twitchiest sectors into option premiums and a monthly distribution schedule.
The Fund seeks current income, cash distributions, and capital appreciation. It uses a focused portfolio of U.S.-listed semiconductor equities together with options strategies intended to generate premiums.
Why people hold it
- Owns the chips rather than a stand-in: a focused portfolio of US-listed semiconductor equities with options written against it, so income leans on a sector instead of one name.yieldmaxetfs.com
- Pays monthly, and the mandate names capital appreciation alongside income, so the stock leg stays in play rather than being fully traded away for premium.
- Actively managed, actively traded, and past the billion-dollar mark since its 2025 launch, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
Worth knowing
- At 1.03% a year, it runs above the 0.75% typical of option-income peers, and top-graded ones like LQDW (0.34%) and YLDE (0.47%) charge a fraction of that.
- Writing calls on semis swaps part of the sector's biggest up-moves for premium, and the size of each payout tracks what the options market is paying that month.
- Launched in 2025, so it has not yet traded through a full chip cycle. Semiconductor drawdowns run deep, and an options overlay only cushions so much.
CHPY Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 52%
- NVDA
Geography
CHPY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
CHPY$19,484
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 | CHPY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +73.7% |
| 1 month | +9.4% |
| 3 months | −11.3% |
| 1 year | +94.8% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | CHPY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +73.7% | |
| 2025 | +62.7% |
CHPY in the news
CHPY Dividends
- 38.29%
- $27.26
- $0.74 per share
- Weekly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | $0.74 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.51 |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | $0.57 |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | $0.55 |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.54 |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.55 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.63 |
CHPY Risk
- 38.7%
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.
- 1.81
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.
- −27.6%
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.
- 2.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CHPY Cost
1.03%
CHPY1.03%
- The middle half of Index Option Income funds
- Median 0.81%
18 of the 25 Index Option Income funds charge less.