Global X - Dow 30 Covered Call & Growth ETF
$27.87−0.12 (−0.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $6M
- 1Y return
- +13.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 9.19%
- Holdings
- 31
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $27.97
- 52W range
The ETF.net DYLG Grade
Score 71 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 100Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 41Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 66Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on DYLG
AThe covered call fund with the brakes half off. DYLG tracks an index that writes calls on about half its Dow 30 exposure, leaving the other half uncapped, and pays monthly at 0.35% a year.
DYLG seeks to generally match, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Cboe DJIA Half BuyWrite Index.
Why people hold it
- Writes calls on roughly half the book, not all of it: part of the Dow's ~30 blue chips keeps uncapped upside while the covered half generates the option premium.globalxetfs.com
- 0.35% a year undercuts the typical fee in its options-income peer group and comes in below Global X's full covered call sibling DJIA at 0.60%.
- Rules-based, not a manager guessing when to sell options: it follows the Cboe DJIA Half BuyWrite Index and has tracked it very tightly.
- Distributions land monthly, on a fixed cadence rather than a quarterly lump.
Worth knowing
- Half the calls, roughly half the premium. Income runs lighter than a Dow fund that writes on the whole portfolio, like DJIA.
- Small and thinly traded. Limit orders and a glance at the spread matter more here than with the category's giants.
- The engine is about 30 large-cap names from the Dow, a narrower slice of the market than a broad index overlay.
DYLG Holdings
- Stocks
- 31
- 55%
- GS
Sectors
Geography
DYLG 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 | DYLG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.3% |
| 1 month | −2.0% |
| 3 months | +2.3% |
| 1 year | +13.8% |
| 3 years | +14.4% |
| 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 | DYLG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.3% | |
| 2025 | +12.5% | |
| 2024 | +14.6% | |
| 2023 | +4.0% |
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DYLG Dividends
- 9.19%
- $2.57
- $0.07 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.09 |
| May 18, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 23, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $1.42 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.16 |
DYLG Risk
- 9.3%
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.
- 1.02
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.
- −14.0%
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.
- 0.73
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DYLG Cost
- The middle half of Other Index Option Income funds
- Median 0.74%
No Other Index Option Income fund charges less.