Covered-call ETF
REX FANG & Innovation Equity Premium Income ETF (FEPI)
REX FANG & Innovation Equity Premium Income ETF trades as FEPI on NASDAQ. This page collects what it has actually paid — every recorded payment, the calendar-year totals, the forward and trailing 12-month yields side by side against the last price, and the dates already declared.
Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (7 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.
The two yields above are different measurements and are not interchangeable. The forward yield annualises the last regular payment; the trailing 12-month yield counts the cash actually paid over the last 365 days. Neither is an interest rate, a bond's yield to maturity or an index effective yield, and none of those may be compared with these as like for like. See how we compute these numbers.
Our stored payment history for FEPI begins in 2023. There is no current run of increases to report: either the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it, or there is no earlier complete year in our history to compare it with.
A yield is just a payment divided by a price, so it moves every day even when the payment does not. The forward number is an estimate of the next twelve months; the trailing number is what was actually paid over the last twelve. Ex-date is the cut-off: own the shares before it and the next payment is yours, buy on or after it and the seller keeps it.
What FEPI is
The REX FANG & Innovation Equity Premium Income ETF, or FEPI, utilizes a covered call strategy designed to achieve two main goals: generating income and providing exposure to potential growth within the technology sector. The fund accomplishes this by maintaining positions in the stocks comprising its benchmark, the Solactive FANG Innovation Index, and simultaneously selling call options on these shares that are slightly out-of-the-money. This approach leverages the significant volatility often found in major technology companies, thereby earning premium income from the options. However, it also means that some of the potential upside from stock appreciation is capped. An additional benefit is a modest safeguard against drops in stock prices. It's important to recognize, though, that this protective buffer is confined to the option premiums received and may not completely negate substantial declines in the underlying securities. The fund's benchmark is an equally weighted index made up of fifteen U.S. technology firms. Eight of these are considered foundational holdings: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, and Tesla. The other seven companies are chosen quarterly from a diverse range of Factset technology-related industries, based on their trading volumes.
FEPI is a covered-call etf. What it pays is a distribution, not interest, and that distinction matters. A distribution is whatever the fund passes through for the period — dividends and interest received from the holdings, realised capital gains, option premium where the strategy writes options, and sometimes return of capital. Only the year-end tax form breaks the payment into its parts.
Return of capital is your own money coming back. It is not taxed on receipt, but it reduces your cost basis, so the tax arrives later as a larger capital gain. A fund can therefore publish a steady-looking distribution rate while the net asset value drifts down underneath it. The distribution is set by the fund and can be changed at any time; it is never a coupon. Call-writing funds fund part of the payment by selling away upside: the premium is collected today, and the gains above the strike belong to the option buyer.
Figures on this page are computed by Income Investing from the payment history and last price stored in our own database; the payment records come from fmp and the price from fmp, last recomputed Aug 25, 2026. They describe what has been paid, not what will be paid. Yield, payout ratio, our data sources and our methodology are explained elsewhere on the site.
Payment history
Each row is one payment as recorded by our data provider, newest first. The final column compares it with the nearest payment about a year earlier.
The table lists the 24 most recent recorded distributions for FEPI, newest first, with ex-dates running from Jun 25, 2025 to Aug 19, 2026. The latest is $0.2050 per share in USD, ex-date Aug 19, 2026, pay date Aug 20, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 1 is higher, 23 lower and 0 unchanged; the remaining 0 have no comparable payment in the record. None is flagged as a special or one-off payment. Payment records supplied by fmp.
How to read this table: one row is one payment, newest at the top, and the amount is what a single share received on that one date. It is not an annual figure — the yearly ones are in the tiles above and in the totals further down. A row marked Special is a one-off the issuer chose to make rather than part of the regular schedule, which is why it is left out of the year-on-year comparison and out of those yearly totals. Whether the amount repeats for several rows or moves every time is a fact about the structure rather than a sign of health: a company usually resets its dividend once a year, while a fund's distribution can change with every payment.
| Ex-dateOwn it before this day and this payment is yours. | Pay date | Amount per shareWhat one share received on that date, before tax. | Cadence tagged by provider | Type | vs. a year earlier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | $0.2050 | Weekly | Regular | -78.98% |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | $0.2029 | Weekly | Regular | -79.19% |
| Aug 05, 2026 | Aug 06, 2026 | $0.1954 | Weekly | Regular | -79.87% |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.1920 | Weekly | Regular | -80.22% |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.1978 | Weekly | Regular | -79.62% |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | $0.2033 | Weekly | Regular | -79.05% |
| Jul 08, 2026 | Jul 09, 2026 | $0.2064 | Weekly | Regular | -78.55% |
| Jul 01, 2026 | Jul 02, 2026 | $0.2089 | Weekly | Regular | -78.29% |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.2054 | Weekly | Regular | -78.65% |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.2129 | Weekly | Regular | -77.87% |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Jun 11, 2026 | $0.2133 | Weekly | Regular | -76.97% |
| Jun 03, 2026 | Jun 04, 2026 | $0.2248 | Weekly | Regular | -75.73% |
| May 27, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.2220 | Monthly | Regular | -76.03% |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | $0.9044 | Monthly | Regular | +9.79% |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.8675 | Monthly | Regular | -8.07% |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.8833 | Monthly | Regular | -9.93% |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.9548 | Monthly | Regular | -8.69% |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.9836 | Monthly | Regular | -9.19% |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.9589 | Monthly | Regular | -12.63% |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $1.0406 | Monthly | Regular | -3.44% |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.9971 | Monthly | Regular | -8.71% |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Aug 28, 2025 | $0.9752 | Monthly | Regular | -9.64% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Jul 24, 2025 | $0.9706 | Monthly | Regular | -10.85% |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.9622 | Monthly | Regular | -16.31% |
The cadence column is the tag our provider attached to that individual payment (fmp), not the security's established schedule. The two can disagree, which is why the cadence shown in the tiles above is only accepted after three consecutive payments were tagged the same way.
A blank comparison means there was no comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier — a new payer, a changed cadence, or a gap in the record. Special and one-off payments are labelled and are excluded from the comparison.
Distributions by calendar year
Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-dividend date: every regular distribution whose ex-dividend date fell in that year, for the last ten complete years on record. These are amounts actually paid, never a forward estimate, and they are not the issuer's own annual distribution figure.
The chart covers 3 complete calendar years for FEPI, 2023 to 2025, per share, in USD. Each bar totals the regular distributions with an ex-dividend date in that calendar year. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, which is not necessarily the issuer's own distribution year. Our stored payment history for FEPI begins in 2023. The total went from $2.33 in 2023 to $11.61 in 2025 — 398% higher. Within that span 1 year was higher than the year before and 1 lower. The current year is still in progress and is left out, and special or one-off payments are excluded. This is a record of what was paid, not a projection. The cadence on record for FEPI is weekly, so the number of payments a complete calendar year should contain is not fixed and no per-year count check is applied to these bars. Read each total as the payments we hold with an ex-dividend date in that year, nothing more.
Each bar, and each row underneath it, is one calendar year of regular payments added together for a single share. Read left to right and you are reading whether the payment has grown, held or been cut — a record of what was paid, never a forecast of what will be. One thing to watch for: a year here is decided by the date the payment went ex, so when that date slips across a year end one year holds an extra payment and its neighbour is one short while the payment itself never moved. Any year where that has happened is drawn as a dashed bar and marked with an asterisk, and it is the usual reason these totals differ from the annual figure the issuer itself publishes.
| Year | Paid per share that yearEvery regular payment dated in that year, added up, for one share. | Payments in the yearA count that differs from the usual one means a payment moved across a year end. | Change on the year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $2.33 | 2 | — |
| 2024 | $13.49 | 12 | +479.10% |
| 2025 | $11.61 | 12 | -13.97% |
Similar securities
The eight closest covered-call etf entries by trailing 12-month yield, in the same sector. A research screen, not a recommendation.
These are not the best-paying securities of this kind, and no ranking is meant by the order. They are the ones whose trailing 12-month yield sits nearest to this one, in the same structure and usually the same sector, so that this security can be seen in company rather than on its own. Every figure here is backward-looking cash that has already been paid. A row that sits well away from the rest is a question to take to that security's own page, not an answer.
| Ticker | Name | Price | Trailing 12m yieldCash paid out over the last year, over today's price. | Paid over 12 months | Pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QQQI | NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF | $54.12 | 14.13% | $7.65 | Monthly |
| SPYI | Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF | $53.53 | 11.83% | $6.33 | Monthly |
| QYLD | Global X - Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF | $18.13 | 11.72% | $2.12 | Monthly |
| RYLD | Global X - Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF | $16.26 | 11.53% | $1.88 | Monthly |
| JEPQ | JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF | $59.75 | 10.92% | $6.52 | Monthly |
| TLTW | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF | $21.49 | 10.85% | $2.33 | Monthly |
| XYLD | Global X - S&P 500 Covered Call ETF | $41.36 | 10.47% | $4.33 | Monthly |
| PBP | Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF | $23.20 | 10.39% | $2.41 | Monthly |
Every row in this table is on the same basis — cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days, divided by that security's last price — so the column can be read down. Forward estimates are deliberately not used here, because they exist for some securities and not others and a mixed column would invite a comparison that does not hold. A dash means no payment was recorded in the last 365 days, or no price is on file. Open a security to see both of its yields.
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