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MSTYYieldMax MSTR Strategy ETF

YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF

$14.40+5.34% today
11.538752-WK
Price & daily flows
71.449.627.914.40DAILY NET FLOWAug 21Dec 18Apr 21Aug 21

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 3Y SHOWN · NET −$9.1B OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$47M of net buying over the past month, about 5.6% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -52.1% so far this year.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$843Massets under management
expense ratio
+$47Mnet flow, trailing month
1.6Mavg daily volume, 30 days
0holdings · US-domiciled
2024listed June 4, 2024 · beta 2.52
The book at a glance
9.3%13.4%16.2%18.9%12.4%23571836326801719.9%22.6%

CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1United States Treasury Bill 12/10/20269.32%
2US TREASURY N/B 2.375 5/15/202713.41%
3United States Treasury Bill 02/18/202716.24%
4United States Treasury Bill 10/15/202618.86%
5United States Treasury Bill 09/03/202612.40%
636601344366013440.08%
723571836235718364.46%
836191610361916100.33%
936195195361951950.54%
1032680171326801719.87%
1136195172361951720.17%
1236191664361916640.35%
1336604289366042890.28%
14First American Government Obligations Fund 12/01/20312.37%
15Cash & Other22.63%
Country weights
Cash85.55%
United States1.35%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+15.8%
1 month+17.6%
3 months-36.6%
6 months-37.5%
YTD-52.1%
1 year-83.6%
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$11M
1 month+$47M
3 months+$135M
YTD+$210M
1 year−$9.1B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
SepNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
57%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
69%realized volatility, 1 year
-86.7%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-83.4%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 22.6% of the book; the top ten carry 110%. Spread across 15+ names, it behaves like roughly 7 equally-weighted positions.

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
2Kcalls today
871puts today
0.42put/call ratio
2.8Mshares traded
The case against MSTY

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat MSTY on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
JEPQ JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF0.35%$41.9B+$1.1B50× the assets · +$1.1B in over the monthHead-to-head
HYG iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF0.49%$17.9B+$1.4B21× the assets · +$1.4B in over the monthHead-to-head
HDV iShares Core High Dividend ETF0.08%$15.1B+$209M18× the assets · +$209M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDV iShares International Select Dividend ETF0.51%$8.6B+$97M10× the assets · +$97M in over the monthHead-to-head
PDBC Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF0.59%$6.9B+$1B8× the assets · +$1B in over the monthHead-to-head
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