AAPW vs UBEW

AAPWBRoundhill AAPL WeeklyPay ETF

UBEWCRoundhill UBER WeeklyPay ETF

In short

AAPW Most leveraged single-stock funds reset daily. AAPW resets on the calendar week, targeting 1.2x Apple's weekly total return before fees, and cuts a distribution check every week. Cost: 1.00%, no waiver.

UBEW —No data

Stated mandate

AAPW AAPW seeks income and growth by making weekly distributions while targeting 1.2 times the calendar-week total return of Apple common shares, before fees and expenses.

UBEW —No data

Why people hold it

• AAPW Leverage dialed down, not up: 120% of Apple's calendar-week total return before fees and expenses, with the objective defined over the week and nothing longer.sec.gov
• Paying is the point. The prospectus lists weekly distributions as the primary objective and the 1.2x weekly return as the secondary one, an unusual order of operations.sec.gov
• At 1.00% with no waiver, it sits right alongside its WeeklyPay siblings (AMDW 1.00%, COSW 0.99%) and TSYX at 0.98%, and near the category median fee.
• In a peer group of leveraged single-stock income funds, this ranks among the stronger implementations, hitting its stated weekly target closely.

UBEW —No data

Worth knowing

• AAPW The weekly reset is the mechanism and the catch: hold past Friday and your result can drift from 1.2x Apple's move. A single week can take the whole investment.sec.gov
• Distributions can exceed the fund's income and gains. The excess is return of capital, your own money handed back, which reduces net asset value.roundhillinvestments.com
• It is a small fund that trades lightly, and its Apple exposure comes through swaps with a counterparty plus Treasury collateral rather than shares.sec.gov

UBEW —No data

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