Every CHPY Dividend Ever Paid: Full Weekly Payout History, Calculator and What It Means

Every single week, $CHPY, the YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF, pays a dividend. Since it launched on April 2, 2025, it has paid 78 distributions worth a combined $38.02 per share, ranging from a low of $0.3454 to a high of $0.7754. Below is every one of those payouts, the totals by month and year, and a set of calculators that run on the fund's real payout history instead of a single yield number.

What CHPY is

CHPY is an actively managed ETF from YieldMax that holds a basket of roughly 15 to 30 semiconductor stocks and sells options on them to generate weekly income. Unlike the single-stock YieldMax funds such as NVDY or AMDY, it owns the chip stocks directly and spreads the bet across the whole sector.

Here are the basics from YieldMax's fund page, as of early October 2026:

The biggest positions recently were NVIDIA, AMD, Marvell, Lam Research, Intel, Micron, Broadcom, ASE Technology, United Microelectronics and Astera Labs, each sitting somewhere around 4% to 6% of the fund. So no single chip stock makes or breaks it.

Two numbers in that table look strange side by side: a distribution rate above 40% and a negative SEC yield. The SEC yield only counts dividends and interest from the stocks, minus fees, and chip stocks pay very little in dividends. Almost all of CHPY's payout comes from option premium, which the SEC yield leaves out. That is normal for this style of fund.

How CHPY makes its weekly income

YieldMax describes the strategy as selling call spreads on the stocks in the portfolio. In plain English, the fund sells call options to collect premium, and also buys further-out calls so that some upside is left on the table if the stocks rip higher. It is a cousin of the classic covered call, which I break down in Covered Call ETFs, Explained.

Semiconductor stocks are volatile, and volatile stocks pay fatter option premiums. That is the engine behind CHPY's big payouts. The trade-off is the same one every option-income fund makes: you collect income every week, you give up part of the upside in big rallies, and you still own the full downside if chip stocks fall.

Every CHPY dividend, charted

Each bar is one weekly payout, by ex-dividend date. Hover or tap a bar to see the exact amount. The dashed line is the 4-week moving average, which smooths out the week-to-week noise.

The full CHPY dividend history table

Here is every payout since inception, newest first. ROC is YieldMax's estimate of how much of each payout was return of capital. The table scrolls, and you can filter it by year.

CHPY dividends by year and by month

Because CHPY pays weekly, some months get five payouts and some get four. That alone can swing a monthly total by 20% or more, so don't read too much into one month's number.

A few things stand out to me in the history:

• The payouts grew. The first 13 payouts averaged $0.3982. The most recent 13 averaged $0.5586. A rising share price helps here, since the same percentage of option premium on a bigger NAV is a bigger dollar check.
• The biggest weeks clustered in June 2026. The record was $0.7754 (ex-date June 24, 2026), followed closely by $0.7558 the week before.
• The smallest payout was $0.3454 (ex-date April 24, 2025), back in the fund's first month.
• Only one payout ever came in above $0.70 outside of June 2026: the $0.7373 payout in mid September 2026. Big weeks happen, but they are not the norm.

CHPY income calculator, built on real payouts

Most dividend calculators take one yield and multiply. That is risky with a fund like CHPY, because the weekly check moves around. This one lets you pick which slice of CHPY's actual history to base the estimate on, from the latest payout to the all-time low.

Try flipping between "latest payout" and "lowest payout ever." The gap between those two numbers is the range you should plan around, not the single best-case figure.

What if you had bought CHPY earlier?

Pick a starting payout and a share count, and this adds up every dividend CHPY actually paid from that week through the latest one. It does not include reinvesting or changes in the share price, just the cash that would have landed in your account.

How much CHPY do you need for a monthly income goal?

Flip the math around. Type in the monthly income you want and see how many shares, and roughly how many dollars, it would take based on CHPY's own payout history.

If you want a longer projection with reinvestment, the DRIP calculator and the CHPY dividend calculator run on the live yield from our database. For a bigger picture, the income goal calculator works for any fund we track, and DividendProjection.com projects a whole portfolio.

About all that return of capital

Look at the ROC column in the table and you will see a lot of 100% estimates. Across the payouts where YieldMax published an estimate, the average came out around 70% return of capital, and 32 payouts were estimated at roughly 100%.

Return of capital (ROC) is a tax classification. It means that payout is not taxed as income in the year you get it. Instead, it lowers your cost basis, and you settle up when you sell. For option-income funds, a high ROC estimate can come from how option gains and losses are timed for tax purposes, and it does not automatically mean the fund is handing your own money back.

The real test is whether the share price holds up while the payouts flow. That is what total return measures. Our database shows CHPY's total return since inception at 188%, and its price decay flag reads No. YieldMax's own report showed a cumulative NAV return of 156.18% from inception through September 30, 2026. Those strong numbers came during a powerful run for chip stocks, so they say more about the last 18 months than about the next 18. I explain why I always check this in The Yield Trap.

Taxes on funds like this get complicated fast, so talk to a tax professional about your situation. I'm not giving tax advice.

CHPY vs other high-income ETFs

Here is how CHPY stacks up against other YieldMax funds and popular option-income ETFs. Yields and returns update daily from the TopETFs database.

A few of these are worth calling out. SOXY is YieldMax's other semiconductor income fund, but it targets a much lower yield of about 12.0% and pays monthly. NVDY and AMDY are single-stock funds, so they ride on one chip company instead of a basket. GPTY is the AI and tech version of CHPY's portfolio approach. And QQQI is a lower-yield, broader Nasdaq option-income fund for comparison.

If weekly income is what you're after, I ranked a whole group of weekly payers in what $10,000 pays in weekly ETFs, and the full live list lives on WeeklyETFs.com and our weekly dividend ETF list. For everything YieldMax runs, see the YieldMax ETF list.

The risks I'd weigh before buying CHPY

• It's one sector. Every holding is a semiconductor company. When chips sell off together, CHPY goes with them, and the weekly income won't fully cover a steep drop.
• Capped upside. Selling call spreads means giving up part of the gains in a strong rally. In a huge chip run, a plain semiconductor fund would likely beat it.
• The payout is not fixed. It depends on option premiums, which depend on volatility. Calm markets can mean smaller checks.
• Short history. CHPY launched in April 2025, during a strong stretch for the sector. It has not been tested through a long chip downturn.
• Cost. The 1.03% expense ratio is high next to a plain index fund. I walk through how much that adds up in the expense ratio math.

If you're deciding whether to spend the weekly checks or put them back to work, reinvest or spend covers that trade-off.

My bottom line on CHPY's dividends

CHPY has done exactly what it promised so far: a check every single week, 78 in a row, adding up to $38.02 a share. The payouts have grown over time, and the total return since launch has been strong during a great run for chip stocks.

But a weekly payout this big always comes with trade-offs. It's a one-sector fund with capped upside, a short track record, and payouts that move with volatility. I'd plan around the lower end of the history, not the record weeks, and I'd keep an eye on total return, not just the size of the check. This isn't a buy or sell signal. It's the homework I'd want done before putting my own money in.

To compare CHPY with every other income fund on yield, fees, assets and price decay, use TopDividendETFsPRO. For free daily rankings, check TopDividendETFs.com, WeeklyETFs.com and MonthlyETFs.com. New to this style of fund? Start with ETFs 101 and Covered Call ETFs, Explained.

How this article was made: Benjie picks every topic based on what he finds useful as a dividend investor and what readers ask about. Parts of this article were drafted with help from AI tools, then edited, fact-checked and shaped by Benjie. All fund numbers come from the TopETFs database and update daily.

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