YieldMax PLTR Option Income Strategy ETF
This fund concentrates its exposure in one company, using derivatives rather than holding the shares directly. Its results depend on that single stock.
$37.38+1.00 (+2.76%)
History starts Oct 8, 2024.
- Expense ratio
- 1.07%
- Fund size
- $375M
- 1Y return
- +9.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 79.16%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $36.17
- 52W range
The ETF.net PLTY Grade
Score 52 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.DScore 34Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 70Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 41Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 78Category rank
Our read on PLTY
CPalantir's volatility is the raw material here. PLTY writes calls on PLTR and turns the premium into cash income, holding options and short-term Treasuries rather than the stock itself.
The Fund seeks current income while providing indirect exposure to PLTR's share-price returns. The strategy generally limits potential investment gains.
Why people hold it
- Built on one of the market's loudest, most volatile large caps, where option premiums run rich. Treasury bills sit underneath as collateral and add their own income.sec.govyieldmaxetfs.com
- The 1.07% fee lands right at the median for single-stock option-income funds, so the Palantir version costs no more than the rest of the shelf.
- Sits in the upper half of a crowded field of single-stock income overlays, a category where plenty of look-alikes launched and few stand out.
Worth knowing
- Lopsided by design: sold calls cap the upside, while sold at-the-money puts pass through the full extent of PLTR's share-price losses.sec.gov
- Part of a payout can be return of capital, meaning your own money handed back rather than income the fund earned.yieldmaxetfs.comyieldmaxetfs.com
- You never own Palantir. Exposure runs through options on the stock, so there are no shareholder rights and results hinge on the options book.sec.gov
PLTY Holdings
- Other
- —
- 106%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 05/15/2027
Geography
PLTY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
PLTY$10,901
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 | PLTY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.0% |
| 1 month | +0.3% |
| 3 months | +45.2% |
| 1 year | +9.0% |
| 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 | PLTY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.0% | |
| 2025 | +78.7% | |
| 2024 | +49.7% |
PLTY in the news
PLTY Dividends
- 79.16%
- $28.80
- $0.22 per share
- Weekly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.73 |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.64 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | $0.72 |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | $0.75 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.26 |
PLTY Risk
- 54.8%
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.
- 1.33
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.
- −41.0%
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.
- 0.79
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PLTY Cost
1.07%
PLTY1.07%
- The middle half of Single-Stock Option Income funds
- Median 1.07%
35 of the 71 Single-Stock Option Income funds charge less.