Strategy Shares Gold Enhanced Yield ETF
$25.11−0.91 (−3.50%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.79%
- Fund size
- $81M
- 1Y return
- −13.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 8.32%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.99
- 52W range
The ETF.net GOLY 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.AScore 75Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 37Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 32Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 46Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 56Category rank
Our read on GOLY
CMost gold income funds sell calls and cap the upside. GOLY runs the other way: a corporate bond portfolio does the paying, while a swap-based gold overlay rides on top with its upside intact.
The fund seeks both income and long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- The income engine is bonds, not sold calls. Corporate bonds and Treasuries generate the cash flow while the gold overlay sits on top, keeping its upside.strategysharesetfs.comstrategysharesetfs.com
- Fee runs below the median for gold income funds, matching IAUI and undercutting IGLD and GDXY.
- By design, roughly full bond exposure plus a full notional gold overlay, with a commodity basket layered on top. Distributions land monthly.strategysharesetfs.com
Worth knowing
- Stacking cuts both ways: bonds and gold are both fully in play at once, so a bad month for rates and metals together hits harder than either sleeve alone.strategysharesetfs.com
- The current fund is young. Name and strategy changed in January 2025, so earlier performance reflects a different mandate.strategysharesetfs.comsec.gov
- Trades lightly next to mainstream gold ETFs, so spreads can widen and limit orders matter.
GOLY Holdings
- Other
- —
- 200%
- RECV GOLY TRS BNPIG0GC
Geography
GOLY 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 | GOLY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −22.7% |
| 1 month | −6.9% |
| 3 months | +1.2% |
| 1 year | −13.5% |
| 3 years | +18.0% |
| 5 years | +6.0% |
| 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 | GOLY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −22.7% | |
| 2025 | +58.0% | |
| 2024 | +19.8% | |
| 2023 | +12.7% | |
| 2022 | −19.9% | |
| 2021 | −1.3% |
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GOLY Dividends
- 8.32%
- $2.16
- $0.11 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2026 | Sep 15, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Jul 15, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Jun 12, 2026 | $0.11 |
| May 13, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Apr 15, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Mar 12, 2026 | Mar 13, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Feb 13, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Jan 15, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.58 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Nov 14, 2025 | $0.14 |
GOLY Risk
- 25.7%
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.
- 0.62
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.
- −38.0%
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.
- 0.57
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GOLY Cost
- The middle half of Gold & Metals Option Income funds
- Median 0.93%
2 of the 12 Gold & Metals Option Income funds charge less.