YBTY vs YLDE

YBTYFGraniteShares YieldBoost TopYielders ETF

YLDEAFranklin ClearBridge Enhanced Income ETF

In short

YBTY A fund of funds that rotates through GraniteShares' YieldBOOST ETFs, each selling put spreads on 2x single-stock ETFs to harvest fat option premiums. One ticker, weekly payouts, and all the volatility that comes with the source material.

YLDE A 2017 ClearBridge dividend portfolio that had an income engine bolted on in 2025: about 50 large-cap dividend payers, with index calls sold on top for premium. Pays monthly, charges 0.48%, no waiver, below the category median.

Stated mandate

YBTY YBTY seeks current income as its primary objective and secondary exposure to selected YieldBOOSTTM ETFs. It is actively managed and selects those ETFs using factors including implied volatility, issuer events, and option-market characteristics of the underlying stocks.

YLDE The Fund seeks income and long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed enhanced equity-income strategy. It primarily invests in dividend-paying equities and writes U.S. exchange-traded calls on U.S. large-cap equity indices to enhance income.

Why people hold it

• YBTY One ticket to the whole YieldBOOST lineup: the manager rotates between those funds using implied volatility, upcoming issuer events and option-market signals.graniteshares.com
• The underlying funds sell near-the-money puts on leveraged single-stock ETFs and buy cheaper puts further out, so premiums run rich while the option leg's loss has a floor.graniteshares.com
• YBTY is not itself leveraged. It rents the richer option premiums that 2x ETFs throw off, and distributions land weekly rather than monthly or quarterly.graniteshares.comgraniteshares.com 2

• YLDE The overlay sits on top of the stock picks, not inside them. Calls are written on U.S. large-cap indices such as the S&P 500, so no single holding has its own upside sold away.franklintempleton.com
• 0.48% with no fee waiver propping it up, below the median for active overlay funds. Cheaper than RDVI at 0.75%, though index-built rivals RECI (0.30%) and TCAL (0.34%) go lower.
• Two desks, two jobs: ClearBridge runs the roughly 50-stock dividend sleeve, while a separate options manager handles the call writing, an arrangement spelled out in the fund's filings.sec.gov
• Income arrives monthly and comes from two places, dividends from the equity sleeve plus premium from written calls, rather than from reaching for the highest-yielding names.franklintempleton.com

Worth knowing

• YBTY At 1.38% it sits among the priciest in its peer group (PAPI charges 0.29%, DIVO 0.56%), and the underlying YieldBOOST funds' fees stack on top of that.graniteshares.com
• Distributions can include return of capital, which is principal handed back rather than income the strategy earned.graniteshares.com
• Launched December 2025, non-diversified, small and thinly traded, so spreads can be wide and there is little history to judge the strategy by.graniteshares.com

• YLDE The ticker dates to 2017, but it spent most of that life as a dividend ESG fund. The enhanced-income objective, options overlay and dividend policy changed on February 28, 2025.franklintempleton.com
• Selling index calls trades away part of a sharp market rally for premium collected up front, and that premium offsets losses only as far as it goes in a steep decline.franklintempleton.com
• A thinly traded fund with a smaller asset base than the category's giants, which can mean wider bid/ask spreads than the headline names in derivative income.

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