Aptus International Enhanced Yield ETF
$27.91−0.45 (−1.58%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.44%
- Fund size
- $517M
- 1Y return
- +24.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.44%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $27.89
- 52W range
The ETF.net IDUB Grade
Score 64 of 100 sits in the B 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 92Category 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.BScore 64Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 29Category 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 72Category rank
Our read on IDUB
BIncome-overlay funds usually stop at the U.S. border. IDUB goes the other way: an actively managed developed-plus-emerging-markets stock sleeve with a growth and momentum tilt, built to out-yield MSCI AC World ex USA, for 0.44% a year.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation together with current income.
Why people hold it
- Rare address for an income-overlay fund: developed and emerging market stocks, with the income goal set against MSCI AC World Index ex USA instead of a U.S. benchmark.
- Charges 0.44% a year, well under the typical fee in its options-income peer group.
- Actively managed with an advertised growth and momentum screen, so the stock side is a selection decision, not a market-cap copy of the index it's measured against.
- Pairs capital appreciation with current income in one mandate, and lands among the stronger implementations in its options-income cohort.
Worth knowing
- Income is defined relative to the benchmark's yield, not a fixed payout, so the quarterly distribution moves around and can include return of capital.
- Trades thinly next to the headline U.S. income ETFs, which can mean wider spreads on busy days.
- Going abroad adds currency moves and emerging market country risk that a U.S.-only income fund doesn't carry.
IDUB Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 102%
- VXUS
Sectors
Geography
IDUB 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 | IDUB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +19.3% |
| 1 month | −0.2% |
| 3 months | +1.5% |
| 1 year | +24.8% |
| 3 years | +19.5% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 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 | IDUB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +19.3% | |
| 2025 | +27.5% | |
| 2024 | +6.1% | |
| 2023 | +9.1% | |
| 2022 | −19.8% | |
| 2021 | −1.3% |
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IDUB Dividends
- 4.44%
- $1.26
- $0.35 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.45 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.41 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.07 |
IDUB Risk
- 11.0%
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.
- 1.20
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.
- −28.7%
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.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IDUB Cost
- The middle half of Index Option Income funds
- Median 0.81%
2 of the 25 Index Option Income funds charge less.