Exchange-traded fund

Invesco Preferred ETF (PGX)

Invesco Preferred ETF trades as PGX on AMEX. 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.

$10.64 $0.03 (+0.28%)
52-week range $10.54 – $11.92
Exchange-traded fund AMEXFinancial ServicesAsset Management - Bonds

Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (4 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.

Forward yield 6.56% Last regular payment annualised, divided by the last price. An estimate of the next twelve months — not money that has been paid.
Trailing 12-month yield 6.48% Cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days ($0.6891) divided by the last price. Backward-looking, and not comparable with a bond's yield to maturity or an index yield.
Forward annual payment $0.6984 Forward estimate: the last regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year. It is an estimate of the next twelve months, not cash that has been paid.
Pays Monthly Cadence of the regular payment, accepted only after three consecutive payments were reported at the same frequency.
Next ex-date First day the shares trade without the next payment attached.
Next pay date When the declared payment reaches holders.
Growth streak 1 yr 1 consecutive complete years in which the highest regular payment was above the year before. Our stored payment history for this security begins in 2008. The run ends inside that history, so it is measured rather than a floor.
Years paying 18 Complete calendar years with a payment in our stored history, which begins in 2008. The issuer may have paid for longer than we hold.
Payout ratio Not meaningful for this structure — GAAP earnings do not describe what it pays out.
Income score 63 0-100 research screen, not a recommendation.

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 PGX begins in 2008. The run of increases above ends inside that history rather than at its edge, so the figure is measured within what we hold and is not a floor. A streak is counted on the split-adjusted payment, so a share split does not read as a cut.

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.

The Invesco Preferred ETF (PGX) aims to replicate the performance of the ICE BofAML Core Plus Fixed Rate Preferred Securities Index. To achieve this, the Fund typically allocates a minimum of 80% of its total assets to fixed-rate, US dollar-denominated preferred securities that are components of this underlying index. The Index itself comprises fixed-rate, US dollar-denominated preferred securities issued within the domestic U.S. market. These securities must satisfy specific criteria: they require an average credit rating of at least B3 from leading agencies like Moody's, S&P, and Fitch. Additionally, they must originate from countries with an investment-grade risk profile, assessed by the average foreign currency long-term sovereign debt ratings provided by the same three agencies. Rather than fully replicating the entire index, the Fund employs a "sampling" methodology to pursue its investment objective efficiently. Both the Fund and its benchmark index undergo monthly rebalancing and reconstitution.

Company description supplied by the issuer and relayed by our market-data provider, not written by Income Investing. See data sources.

PGX is a exchange-traded fund. 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.

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 PGX, newest first, with ex-dates running from Sep 23, 2024 to Aug 24, 2026. The latest is $0.0582 per share in USD, ex-date Aug 24, 2026, pay date Aug 28, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 9 are higher, 15 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.

Recorded payments for PGX. Amounts are per share as declared, in USD.
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 24, 2026 Aug 28, 2026 $0.0582 Monthly Regular +5.34%
Jul 20, 2026 Jul 24, 2026 $0.0620 Monthly Regular +11.97%
Jun 22, 2026 Jun 26, 2026 $0.0492 Monthly Regular -3.79%
May 18, 2026 May 22, 2026 $0.0500 Monthly Regular -7.85%
Apr 20, 2026 Apr 24, 2026 $0.0596 Monthly Regular +9.54%
Mar 23, 2026 Mar 27, 2026 $0.0561 Monthly Regular -0.39%
Feb 23, 2026 Feb 27, 2026 $0.0543 Monthly Regular -2.53%
Jan 20, 2026 Jan 23, 2026 $0.0638 Monthly Regular +8.59%
Dec 22, 2025 Dec 26, 2025 $0.0541 Monthly Regular -2.92%
Nov 24, 2025 Nov 28, 2025 $0.0587 Monthly Regular +1.56%
Oct 20, 2025 Oct 24, 2025 $0.0670 Monthly Regular +4.79%
Sep 22, 2025 Sep 26, 2025 $0.0560 Monthly Regular -2.83%
Aug 18, 2025 Aug 22, 2025 $0.0553 Monthly Regular -4.36%
Jul 21, 2025 Jul 25, 2025 $0.0554 Monthly Regular -4.65%
Jun 23, 2025 Jun 27, 2025 $0.0512 Monthly Regular -2.99%
May 19, 2025 May 23, 2025 $0.0543 Monthly Regular -2.04%
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 25, 2025 $0.0544 Monthly Regular -2.51%
Mar 24, 2025 Mar 28, 2025 $0.0563 Monthly Regular -2.48%
Feb 24, 2025 Feb 28, 2025 $0.0557 Monthly Regular +0.14%
Jan 21, 2025 Jan 24, 2025 $0.0588 Monthly Regular +1.96%
Dec 23, 2024 Dec 27, 2024 $0.0558 Monthly Regular -19.06%
Nov 18, 2024 Nov 22, 2024 $0.0578 Monthly Regular -3.77%
Oct 21, 2024 Oct 25, 2024 $0.0639 Monthly Regular -2.89%
Sep 23, 2024 Sep 27, 2024 $0.0577 Monthly Regular +1.21%

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 10 complete calendar years for PGX, 2016 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 PGX begins in 2008. The total went from $0.8569 in 2016 to $0.6771 in 2025 — 21% lower. Within that span 1 year was higher than the year before and 9 lower. The three most recent years shown are 2023 $0.7365, 2024 $0.6860 and 2025 $0.6771. 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. Every year shown holds the 12 distributions a monthly cadence implies, so no year on this chart is short or long because a payment shifted across a year end.

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.

2016: $0.8569 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.86 2016 2017: $0.8410 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.84 2017 2018: $0.8190 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.82 2018 2019: $0.7960 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.80 2019 2020: $0.7460 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.75 2020 2021: $0.7232 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.72 2021 2022: $0.7030 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.70 2022 2023: $0.7365 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.74 2023 2024: $0.6860 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.69 2024 2025: $0.6771 per share from 12 payments, matching the 12 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.68 2025
Bar height is the total per share of the regular distributions whose ex-dividend date fell in that calendar year, in USD. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, not by the issuer's own distribution year and not by the date the cash arrived. These are a trailing record — never the forward estimate shown in the tiles above.
Complete calendar years only, bucketed by ex-dividend date — the current year is still in progress and is left out.
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
2016 $0.86 12 -1.84%
2017 $0.84 12 -1.86%
2018 $0.82 12 -2.62%
2019 $0.80 12 -2.81%
2020 $0.75 12 -6.28%
2021 $0.72 12 -3.05%
2022 $0.70 12 -2.80%
2023 $0.74 12 +4.76%
2024 $0.69 12 -6.86%
2025 $0.68 12 -1.29%
What can go wrong
A fund distribution is variable, not a coupon. It reflects whatever the underlying holdings paid over the period, minus the expense ratio, so it moves with the portfolio and can shrink. The share price carries the full market risk of the holdings, distributions can include return of capital that reduces cost basis rather than adding to wealth, and past distribution rates say nothing about future ones.

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SPFF Global X - SuperIncome Preferred ETF $9.51 6.57% $0.63 Monthly
DIV Global X - SuperDividend U.S. ETF $19.91 6.37% $1.27 Monthly
VRP Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF $24.13 6.11% $1.47 Monthly
FPE First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF $17.70 5.98% $1.06 Monthly
MLPA Global X - MLP ETF $56.26 7.15% $4.02 Quarterly

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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Questions about PGX

Does PGX pay a distribution, and how often?
Yes. The regular payment cadence recorded for PGX is monthly. The annual figure works out at $0.6984 per share. Forward estimate: the last regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year. It is an estimate of the next twelve months, not cash that has been paid. The last ex-date in our history is Aug 24, 2026.
What is the yield on PGX, and is it forward or trailing?
There are two, and they measure different things. The forward yield is 6.56%: the last regular payment annualised to $0.6984 a year and divided by the last price of $10.64. That is an estimate of the next twelve months. The trailing 12-month yield is 6.48%: the $0.6891 per share actually paid over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Neither number is a bond's yield to maturity, an index effective yield or an interest rate, and none of those should be compared with these as like for like. Yield also moves inversely with price, so it rises when the market marks the security down — a high number is a question, not an answer.
When is the next PGX ex-dividend date?
No future ex-date has been declared or collected for PGX yet. The last one on record was Aug 24, 2026.
Why is there no meaningful payout ratio for PGX?
A payout ratio compares a dividend to accounting earnings. For a exchange-traded fund the payment is not funded out of GAAP net income — REITs and BDCs pay out of taxable income under distribution rules, funds pass through whatever the portfolio produced, and partnerships distribute cash flow. Analysts use structure-specific measures instead, such as funds from operations for REITs or net investment income for BDCs.
Is the PGX distribution the same as interest?
No. A distribution is whatever the vehicle chooses or is required to pass through in that period. It can contain dividends, interest, realised gains, option premium and return of capital, and only the year-end tax form shows the split. Return of capital is your own money coming back: it is not taxed on receipt, but it lowers your cost basis and therefore raises the gain you are taxed on later.
Has the PGX payment grown?
Over the complete calendar years in our history, the total went from $0.8569 in 2016 to $0.6771 in 2025. The payment rose in 1 consecutive complete years to the end of that record, measured within the history we hold, which begins in 2008. The chart on this page shows every year in between, including any cuts. Those totals bucket each payment by its ex-dividend date, so a year can hold more or fewer payments than the cadence implies when a payment shifts across a year end. Past payment history describes what happened, not what will happen.
How to read this page
Nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold or sell PGX. Figures are drawn from third-party market data and our own calculations, may be delayed or wrong, and can change without notice. Confirm every number with the issuer and with your own broker, tax adviser and financial adviser before acting.

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