Global X - Russell 2000 Covered Call & Growth ETF
$23.81−0.14 (−0.60%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $8M
- 1Y return
- +17.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 10.44%
- Holdings
- 3
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $23.97
- 52W range
The ETF.net RYLG Grade
Score 72 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 93Category 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.CScore 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 35Category 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.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on RYLG
AMost small-cap income funds sell calls on the whole book. RYLG writes one-month at-the-money calls on about half of it, leaving the rest uncapped, and it charges the lowest fee in its Russell 2000 options-income group.
The Fund seeks results generally corresponding to the Cboe Russell 2000 Half BuyWrite Index. It obtains Russell 2000 equity exposure and sells one-month at-the-money calls covering approximately half of the portfolio value.
Why people hold it
- Half-covered by design: one-month at-the-money calls on roughly half the portfolio, so the uncovered half keeps full exposure to a small-cap rally.assets.globalxetfs.com
- At 0.35%, the cheapest ticket in its Russell 2000 options-income cohort, well under the group median and under sibling RYLD at 0.60%.
- Rules-based, not a discretionary options desk: it follows the Cboe Russell 2000 Half BuyWrite Index and pays out monthly.
- Sits in the upper half of its Russell 2000 options-income peer group, one of the stronger builds among funds writing calls on this index.
Worth knowing
- The written half gives up upside above the strike each month. You trade part of a hot small-cap run for premium collected along the way.
- Small fund, thin tape. Spreads can run wider than the category's heavyweights, which matters most on larger orders.
- Underneath sits plain Russell 2000 equity risk. Option premium softens the ride, but there is no buffer or downside floor here.
RYLG Holdings
- Stocks
- 3
- 102%
- RSSL
Sectors
Geography
RYLG 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 | RYLG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.1% |
| 1 month | −3.6% |
| 3 months | −1.0% |
| 1 year | +17.3% |
| 3 years | +14.3% |
| 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 | RYLG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.1% | |
| 2025 | +9.4% | |
| 2024 | +10.6% | |
| 2023 | +8.3% | |
| 2022 | −1.6% |
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RYLG Dividends
- 10.44%
- $2.49
- $0.11 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 18, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 23, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.67 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.22 |
RYLG Risk
- 13.8%
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.
- 0.65
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.
- −22.4%
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.
- 0.96
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
RYLG Cost
- The middle half of Russell 2000 Option Income funds
- Median 0.76%
No Russell 2000 Option Income fund charges less.