NEOS Gold High Income ETF
$49.80−0.82 (−1.62%)
History starts Jun 5, 2025.
- Expense ratio
- 0.79%
- Fund size
- $637M
- 1Y return
- +10.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 14.42%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.34
- 52W range
The ETF.net IAUI 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 75Category 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.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 88Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 35Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 78Category rank
Our read on IAUI
AGold pays no dividend. IAUI's whole job is to change that: exposure to gold ETPs wrapped in a strategy seeking high monthly income, at 0.79% a year.
The Fund seeks high monthly income and potential appreciation through exposure to exchange-traded products that directly expose investors to gold.
Why people hold it
- Gold on its own throws off no cash. This fund seeks high monthly income from gold ETP exposure and distributes on a monthly cadence.neosfunds.com
- 0.79% a year, under the 0.99% median for its gold options-income cohort and below the miner-based route (GDXY at 1.00%, IGLD at 0.85%).
- The metal, not the miners: exposure runs through gold ETPs, so mine costs, labor strikes and company-level missteps stay out of the picture.neosfunds.com
- Sits among the strongest overall implementations in its gold-income peer group, and it changes hands with respectable volume for such a narrow niche.
Worth knowing
- One commodity, one story. No earnings or dividends sit underneath; the position lives and dies by the gold price.
- Distributions can include return of capital, which means part of a payout may be your own money handed back rather than income earned.neosfunds.com
- Launched in 2025, so the track record is short and any read on its risk profile rests on limited history.
IAUI Holdings
- Other
- —
- 101%
- 912797UH8
IAUI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
IAUI$11,023
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 | IAUI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.9% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | +2.8% |
| 1 year | +10.2% |
| 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 | IAUI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.9% | |
| 2025 | +20.6% |
IAUI in the news
IAUI Dividends
- 14.42%
- $7.29
- $0.50 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.50 |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | $0.49 |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.51 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 24, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.61 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | $0.62 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Jan 23, 2026 | $0.61 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.60 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.57 |
| Oct 22, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | $0.58 |
IAUI Risk
- 20.6%
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.
- 0.74
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.
- −22.5%
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.
- 0.48
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IAUI Cost
0.79%
IAUI0.79%
- The middle half of Gold & Metals Option Income funds
- Median 0.93%
2 of the 12 Gold & Metals Option Income funds charge less.