Amplify SILJ Covered Call ETF
$29.99−1.46 (−4.66%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.76%
- Fund size
- $80M
- 1Y return
- +34.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Holdings
- 58
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $31.28
- 52W range
The ETF.net SLJY Grade
Score 70 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 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 83Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 39Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on SLJY
AJunior silver miners swing hard. SLJY sells that volatility: an out-of-the-money covered-call overlay on a junior silver miner basket, targeting 18% annualized option premium and paying monthly.
The fund seeks to balance high income and capital appreciation through exposure to junior silver mining companies and a covered-call strategy.
Why people hold it
- An income overlay on a corner that rarely gets one: calls written on junior silver miners, targeting 18% annualized option premium, paid monthly. A target, not a guarantee.amplifyetfs.comblog.amplifyetfs.com
- Strikes are set above the market rather than at it, so some room for miner rallies stays in the portfolio.amplifyetfs.comblog.amplifyetfs.com
- Roughly 50 junior miners plus silver ETP exposure in one ticker, instead of betting on which small explorer makes it.amplifyetfs.com
Worth knowing
- It runs 0.76% a year against a 0.52% median for precious-metals miner funds, and it trades lightly next to giants like GDX, so spreads can run wider.
- Covered calls trade upside for income: if junior silvers rip past the written strikes, the fund gives back part of that move.amplifyetfs.com
- Amplify discloses distributions can include return of capital, so part of a payout may be principal coming back. Launched in 2025, so the record is short.amplifyetfs.com
SLJY Holdings
- Other
- 58
- 69%
- SILJ
Geography
SLJY 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 | SLJY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.2% |
| 1 month | −1.5% |
| 3 months | +12.9% |
| 1 year | +34.4% |
| 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 | SLJY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.2% | |
| 2025 | +43.2% |
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SLJY Dividends
- $0.60 per share
- Monthly
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.55 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.58 |
| May 28, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.70 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.63 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.65 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.70 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.65 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.52 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.57 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.47 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.48 |
SLJY Risk
- 48.0%
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.
- 0.92
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.
- −35.2%
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.
- 0.71
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SLJY Cost
- The middle half of Gold & Metals Option Income funds
- Median 0.93%
1 of the 12 Gold & Metals Option Income funds charge less.