Global X - Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETF
$43.17−0.24 (−0.55%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.64%
- Fund size
- $15M
- 1Y return
- +33.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 8.50%
- Holdings
- 76
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.41
- 52W range
The ETF.net TYLG Grade
Score 60 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.CScore 43Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 90Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 45Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 62Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on TYLG
BA tech income fund that only half commits: it holds the S&P technology sector lineup and writes calls on half of it, so premiums land monthly while the other half stays free to ride the sector's swings.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Cboe S&P Technology Select Sector Half BuyWrite Index.
Why people hold it
- The 'half buy-write' design is the whole point: calls are written on about half the portfolio, so unlike a full-overlay income fund, the rest of the tech exposure stays uncapped.globalxetfs.com
- Income arrives on a monthly cadence, funded by option premiums rather than tech's famously thin dividends.globalxetfs.com
- The underlying is no mystery box: roughly 80 US technology names from the Technology Select Sector basket, the same lineup behind XLK, with the options overlay bolted on top.assets.globalxetfs.com
- Execution matches the label closely, and the fund sits in the upper half of its sector covered-call peer group on our review.
Worth knowing
- At 0.64% a year, it costs roughly double the 0.35% charged by the State Street Select Sector premium income funds (XLVI, XLUI) in the same cohort.
- Small fund, light trading. Spreads can be wide, so limit orders do real work here.
- The trade-off of the overlay: the covered half gives up upside above the strike, and premium income swings with market volatility rather than arriving as a fixed coupon.globalxetfs.com
TYLG Holdings
- Stocks
- 76
- 84%
- XLK
Sectors
- Financials53.7%
- Technology46.2%
- Energy0.1%
Geography
- United States99.26%
- Ireland0.56%
- Netherlands0.18%
TYLG 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 | TYLG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +28.6% |
| 1 month | +6.1% |
| 3 months | +4.2% |
| 1 year | +33.8% |
| 3 years | +27.0% |
| 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 | TYLG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +28.6% | |
| 2025 | +16.8% | |
| 2024 | +20.6% | |
| 2023 | +41.5% | |
| 2022 | −3.6% |
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TYLG Dividends
- 8.50%
- $3.69
- $0.27 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.37 |
| May 18, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 23, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.33 |
TYLG Risk
- 16.1%
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.
- 1.11
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.
- −24.0%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
TYLG Cost
- The middle half of Sector Option Income funds
- Median 0.47%
12 of the 22 Sector Option Income funds charge less.