Income fund screener

Monthly distributors

Income funds whose stored payment dates fall roughly a month apart.

A curated list is the screener with the filters already set — the same universe, the same stored figures, one fixed cut of them. It is not a selection anyone here has assessed, endorsed or checked one by one: a security appears below because it currently meets the stated test and disappears when it stops meeting it. What the test is, and what it cannot tell you, are set out on this page.

Drawn from the Income fund screener. Open the same filter in the screener to change it.

What this list selects for

This list selects for payment CADENCE and nothing else. Paying monthly changes when cash arrives, not how much of it is earned; a monthly payer and a quarterly payer with the same trailing yield have distributed the same amount over a year. Cadence here is derived from the spacing of actual payment dates, because the provider's frequency tag is missing on many rows.

Background: return of capital.

What this screen covers

This screen covers the funds in the site's curated fund catalog: index and dividend ETFs, bond ETFs, covered-call funds and closed-end funds. It is not every listed fund — it is the set this site tracks, chosen because each one exists to distribute income. Individual shares, preferred series and BDC shares have their own screeners.

Which yield you are reading

Every yield on this page is a TRAILING twelve-month distribution yield: the cash the fund actually paid out over the last 365 days, divided by the latest stored price. It is deliberately not a forward estimate. A fund's distribution moves as its holdings are called, mature or are replaced, so multiplying the most recent payment by twelve would publish a rate the fund never committed to. A trailing figure is backward-looking by construction and is not a promise about the next twelve months.

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112 securities in this screener's universe match this list, sorted by trailing 12-month yield (highest first). This is a research screen, not a recommendation and not a ranking of quality. A filter describes what a security is; the sort order is a filter too, not an opinion. A security at the top of a yield sort is the one paying the most relative to its price today, which is as often a market judgement about risk as it is an opportunity.

The database holds 161 securities in this screener's universe, of which 160 are eligible for the screen. Of the rest, 1 are not currently live — a security whose quote has gone stale is marked historical, because a data vendor keeps quoting the last trade that ever happened for something redeemed, matured, delisted or acquired, and annualising a payment against that price invents a yield.

The two sentences above matter more than any row below them: the first says how many securities matched and in what order they are listed — whichever sort is selected, so the top row is the extreme of that one measure and nothing else — and the second says what was held back and why. In this view the table shows fewer columns: a second yield on a different basis, a ratio, a size are hidden, and the columns that remain carry a line of plain English under the header. Switch to Expert in the bottom-right rail to see all of them. Every figure is a stored observation rather than a live quote, and every one describes the past or the present — none of them is a forecast.

Monthly distributors — a research screen drawn from the Income fund screener over stored prices and stored payment history.
Ticker	Name	Fund typeThe kind of fund. Each type comes by its income differently — passed-through interest, passed-through dividends, sold option premium, or a stated distribution policy.	Holds (curated tag)What the fund holds, from this site's own catalog tags rather than the fund's own classification. A dash means nothing has been tagged.	Price (last stored)	Distribution yield (trailing 12m, cash paid)The cash actually paid out per share over the last twelve months, divided by the latest stored price. Paid, not promised.	Paid per share (trailing 12m)	Pays	Years paying (our history)	Next ex-dateBuy on or after this date and the next payment goes to the seller rather than to you.
BIL	State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF	Bond ETF	Treasury bonds	$91.62	3.76%	$3.44	Monthly	13	—
SGOV	iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Treasury bonds	$100.64	3.74%	$3.76	Monthly	6	—
SHV	iShares Trust iShares 0-1 Year Treasury Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Treasury bonds	$110.34	3.74%	$4.12	Monthly	18	—
GOVT	iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Treasury bonds	$22.57	3.63%	$0.82	Monthly	14	—
SHY	iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Treasury bonds	$82.08	3.63%	$2.98	Monthly	21	—
TFI	State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Municipal Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Municipal bonds	$44.87	3.58%	$1.61	Monthly	19	—
VTEB	Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Municipal bonds	$49.58	3.42%	$1.70	Monthly	11	—
MUB	iShares National Muni Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Municipal bonds	$105.58	3.23%	$3.41	Monthly	12	—
DHS	WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund	Equity income ETF	Dividend equity	$119.58	3.11%	$3.72	Monthly	20	—
SHM	State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Municipal bonds	$47.78	2.68%	$1.28	Monthly	19	—
SUB	iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF	Bond ETF	Municipal bonds	$106.36	2.55%	$2.71	Monthly	18	—
DGRW	WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund	Equity income ETF	Dividend equity	$99.42	1.24%	$1.23	Monthly	13	—

Data as of Aug 25, 2026.

Prices last refreshed Aug 25, 2026; the yields, cadences and streaks derived from them Aug 25, 2026. No figure in this table is a live quote.

A research screen, not a recommendation

This is a research screen, not a recommendation and not a ranking of quality. A filter describes what a security is; the sort order is a filter too, not an opinion. A security at the top of a yield sort is the one paying the most relative to its price today, which is as often a market judgement about risk as it is an opportunity.

What this screener is for

This screen exists to compare funds on the one income figure that is a fact rather than an estimate: what each fund actually paid out per share over the last twelve months, against what a share costs. It covers four structures that distribute income in visibly different ways — an index bond ETF passing through interest, an equity fund passing through dividends, an option-income fund converting volatility into cash, and a closed-end fund running a stated distribution policy, often with borrowed money. See bond funds, covered-call ETFs, closed-end funds.

It is built to make the composition question unavoidable. A high trailing distribution yield can be interest, dividends, realised option premium, realised gains, or your own capital coming back to you, and those four are not the same thing even when they arrive in the same bank account on the same day. See return of capital.

What it cannot tell you

It does not hold what the distribution is MADE OF. The split between income, realised gains and return of capital is published by the fund itself — in the Section 19(a) notice that accompanies a distribution and, definitively, in the year-end 1099-DIV and annual report. Nothing on this site can substitute for those, and a fund paying out capital can show a high yield for years. See return of capital, distribution coverage.
It holds no expense ratio, no management fee and no interest cost. Those come off the return before you see it, they differ by an order of magnitude across the structures in this screen, and the fund's own page or prospectus is the only authority on them. See expense ratios.
It holds no net asset value, so it cannot show a closed-end fund's premium or discount. A closed-end fund trades at its own price; buying one at a premium means paying more than the assets are worth, and the distribution yield shown here is computed on the market price either way. See premiums and discounts to NAV.
It holds no duration, no credit quality and no holdings list, so two bond funds with the same trailing yield can respond to a rate move in opposite directions. See duration.
A trailing yield is a measurement of the past. A fund that cut its distribution last month still shows twelve months of the old rate here until the payments roll off.

These definitions cover every column this screen can show, including the specialist ones hidden from the table above. Read the yield entry first. Which payment went into the figure, and over what period, is what the number actually means — and two yields computed on different bases are not comparable with each other, even though both are printed as a percentage.

What each column means

Distribution yield (trailing 12m, cash paid): Total distributions per share over the last 365 days divided by the latest stored price. Includes any special or year-end distribution that was paid in that window.
Paid per share (trailing 12m): The same twelve months of distributions expressed in dollars per share rather than as a percentage.
Holds (curated tag): The asset-class tag this site stores against the fund, from the curated fund catalog. It is an editorial label for what the fund is for, not a holdings analysis, and a fund can carry more than one.
Years of distributions in our history: How many completed calendar years of payments are stored here for that fund. It is bounded by the data we hold, not by the fund's inception date.

Where these numbers come from

Nothing on this page is a live quote. Prices are the most recent stored observation from the daily quote job, and every yield is computed against that stored price. Securities that have stopped trading — redeemed, matured, delisted or acquired — keep their history in the database but are excluded from every screen, because a vendor keeps quoting the last trade that ever happened and annualising against it invents a yield.

Securities whose last twelve months are dominated by a one-off payment, or that have too few payments on record to establish a rate, are marked 'irregular' by the compute job and are excluded from every screen here. The figure they would produce describes a single event rather than an income stream.

What can go wrong here

A fund's distribution is a policy, not a promise, and it can be cut at any time. Where a distribution exceeds what the portfolio earns, the difference is capital returned to you, which lowers the asset value the next distribution is paid out of — a yield that looks stable while the share price erodes. Covered-call funds cap the upside they can participate in, so a rising market can leave them behind even while the cash keeps arriving. Closed-end funds add two more risks: they can trade well below the value of what they own, and many borrow to invest, which magnifies both directions.

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Covered-call and option-income funds

Funds that sell call options against their holdings and distribute the premium alongside whatever the holdings themselves pay.

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Bond funds by focus

Bond ETFs, with the curated focus tag that says which part of the bond market each one holds.

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Questions about this screen

Why is there no forward yield on this page?

Because a fund's payment is not a fixed rate to annualise. As holdings are called, mature or are replaced, and as option premiums change with volatility, the next payment is genuinely unknown. Multiplying the most recent one by twelve would publish a rate the fund never committed to, so this screen shows only the cash that has actually been paid over the last year.

Does a high distribution yield mean high income?

It means high distributions, which is not the same thing. A distribution can include interest, dividends, realised gains and return of capital. Return of capital is your own money coming back — it is not taxed as income in the year you receive it, and it reduces both your cost basis and the assets left to generate the next payment. The fund's Section 19(a) notice and its annual report show the split; this site does not hold it.

What is the difference between a covered-call fund and a dividend fund?

A dividend fund distributes what its holdings pay. A covered-call fund sells call options against its holdings and distributes the premium as well, which raises the cash it can pay out and caps how much of a rise in the underlying shares it can keep. The income is more stable in a flat or falling market and structurally limited in a strongly rising one.

Why do closed-end funds show the highest yields in this screen?

Several reasons stack up: many use leverage, many hold higher-yielding credit, many run a managed distribution policy that pays a set amount regardless of what was earned, and the yield here is computed on the market price, which for a fund trading at a discount is below the value of what it owns. None of those is a judgement about the fund — they are reasons the number is not comparable with an index ETF's.