QQQI Dividend Calculator
NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF distributes every month. The field below opens with QQQI's own recorded trailing payout of $7.6250 per share, as of 2026-08-18.
Enter the share price you are paying to see the projection. We publish no price data, so this is the one figure the page cannot fill in for you.
Payout figures read from NEOS Investments on Aug 18, 2026. You supply the share price. The QQQI record page holds every payment behind these figures.
What the QQQI Calculator Loads, and the Arithmetic Behind It
The 12 QQQI payments with ex-dates between August 20, 2025 and August 18, 2026 add up to $7.6250 per share once split adjustment is applied. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected 1,000 × $7.6250 = $7,625.00 across that window, which is $635.42 a month if you flatten it and $635.42 per payment on the 12-payment cadence. The calculator performs the same multiplication against whatever share count your investment and share price produce.
Year one of the model is that same multiplication; each later year multiplies $7.6250 by one plus the growth rate you type. The methodology page states the rest.
The one price-shaped figure on this page. NEOS Investments publishes a Distribution rate (sponsor-published) of 14.01% for QQQI as of 2026-07-31. A published distribution rate annualises the latest payment, and QQQI's latest recorded payment of $0.6346 across 12 payments a year comes to $7.6152 per share. Those two figures agree only at a share price near $54.36. That is arithmetic on two published numbers rather than a quote, and it goes stale the moment the market moves. Use the price you can actually buy at.
What QQQI's monthly Cadence Does to the Model
QQQI distributes every month, which is 12 payments a year. The projection above steps once a year, so a twenty-year run performs 20 reinvestments where QQQI would have offered 240. Every payment between the annual steps is treated as though it arrived on the last day of the year. Observed gaps between QQQI ex-dates ran 27 to 36 days, median 28.
Reinvesting each of those 12 payments as it landed, rather than once at the end of the year, earns more than the annual step shows, because earlier shares collect later payments. Holding the share price flat so timing is the only moving part, and computed from QQQI's own payment weights, a 4% distribution rate gives 1.85% more first-year income, and a 14% distribution rate gives 6.67% more first-year income, and a 20% distribution rate gives 9.70% more first-year income. The effect scales with the rate you are modelling, which is why it matters more for a high-distribution fund than for a slow grower, and it stays small next to the variability in the payout itself.
One term decides how far the annual step falls short, and for QQQI it is 45.8%: a measure of how evenly the window's cash is split across its payments. A single lump scores zero, four equal payments 37.5%, twelve 45.8%, and fifty-two 49.0%. QQQI sits near the even end, which is where the annual-step model understates reinvestment most.
Where QQQI's Cash Actually Landed
The 12 complete calendar months ending Jul 2026, from QQQI's recorded ex-dates, split-adjusted, as of 2026-08-18. Income is what 1,000 shares would have collected. A projection divides one annual figure by twelve; the record did this instead.
| Month | Payments | Per Share | On 1,000 Shares | Share of Window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 1 | $0.6285 | $628.50 | 8.2% |
| Sep 2025 | 1 | $0.6411 | $641.10 | 8.4% |
| Oct 2025 | 1 | $0.6445 | $644.50 | 8.5% |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | $0.6304 | $630.40 | 8.3% |
| Dec 2025 | 1 | $0.6413 | $641.30 | 8.4% |
| Jan 2026 | 1 | $0.6359 | $635.90 | 8.3% |
| Feb 2026 | 1 | $0.6140 | $614.00 | 8.1% |
| Mar 2026 | 1 | $0.6089 | $608.90 | 8.0% |
| Apr 2026 | 1 | $0.6297 | $629.70 | 8.3% |
| May 2026 | 1 | $0.6589 | $658.90 | 8.6% |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | $0.6572 | $657.20 | 8.6% |
| Jul 2026 | 1 | $0.6346 | $634.60 | 8.3% |
| 12 months | 12 | $7.6250 | $7,625.00 | 100.0% |
May 2026 was the largest month at $0.6589 per share, carrying 8.6% of the 12-month total on its own. The quietest was Mar 2026 at $0.6089, a factor of 1.1 between the two.
Shares and Capital for a Monthly Income Target from QQQI
Share counts that would have produced each monthly target at QQQI's recorded trailing payout of $7.6250 per share, as of 2026-08-18. This is division on a recorded figure, not advice, and the payout can move. The capital column multiplies the share count by $54.36, the price implied by NEOS Investments' published Distribution rate (sponsor-published), and is only as current as that published rate from 2026-07-31.
| Monthly Target | A Year | QQQI Shares | Average per Payment | Capital at $54.36 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $200 | $2,400 | 315 | $200.16 | $17,122 |
| $750 | $9,000 | 1,181 | $750.43 | $64,194 |
| $2,000 | $24,000 | 3,148 | $2,000.29 | $171,111 |
| $5,000 | $60,000 | 7,869 | $5,000.09 | $427,723 |
On the record above, that same 3,148-share position aiming at $2,000 a month would have collected $2,074.22 in May 2026 and $1,916.82 in Mar 2026. The average is not the month. The record-side arithmetic, at different target levels, is on the QQQI record page.
The Growth Input for QQQI
There is no rate QQQI's record supports, and this page will not invent one. Growth needs two complete calendar years of payouts, or two full years of coverage. Our QQQI record starts 2025-01-22 and holds one complete calendar year across 19 payments. On the record we hold, the rolling comparison can first be computed on January 22, 2027 and the calendar-year comparison on January 1, 2028, so this figure fills in around January 2027 as long as QQQI keeps distributing on its current schedule.
Leave the field at zero for the run you take seriously, which models QQQI paying what it has paid, then run it again at a rate you can defend. The distance between the two answers is the part that came from you rather than from the record.
What Makes QQQI Hard to Model
Each item is triggered by something computed from QQQI's own record and carries the figure that triggered it.
QQQI's payout is generated, not declared, so a growth rate is the wrong control. NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF pays out of an index position combined with an options overlay run for distributable cash. An operating company sets a dividend as policy and moves it in small deliberate steps, which is exactly the behaviour a constant annual growth rate describes. How much cash that produces depends on option pricing in the period rather than on earnings growth at the companies held. Our record bears that out: across trailing twelve months QQQI's payments ran from $0.6089 to $0.6589, a spread of 8%. The growth field on this calculator was built for the first kind of payer. On this one it compounds a number nobody is steering.
QQQI's record cannot supply a growth rate, so any rate you type is invented. A growth figure needs two comparable windows to set against each other, and our QQQI record holds 19 payments from January 22, 2025 with one complete calendar year in them. One window is not a comparison. On our QQQI record the earliest it can be filled is January 2027.
The model deducts no fees, and QQQI charges 0.68% a year. Fund expenses come out of the fund before a distribution is declared, so QQQI's recorded payments are already net of them and the income column needs no adjustment. The value column is a different matter: compounded over a twenty-year projection, a 0.68% annual charge accounts for about 12.8% of the position, and the projection shows none of it. Read the ending value as a pre-fee, pre-tax figure.
QQQI has only existed since January 29, 2024. That is 2.6 years of fund, not just 1.6 years of our record. A twenty-year projection asks a distribution policy to hold through conditions this fund has not yet met. Nothing about that makes the arithmetic wrong; it makes the input a shorter-lived observation than the horizon it is being stretched across.
Starting a QQQI Projection Today
A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 21, 2026, 233 days into 2026. QQQI has already gone ex-dividend 7 times in 2026, for $4.4392 per share, and buying now collects none of it. On the observed cadence, about 5 more payments would fall before 31 December, which is 42% of a normal year for QQQI. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule QQQI has published.
Nothing further is declared for QQQI on our record, so every payment inside the projection is a modelled one. Based on the 28-day gap the record shows, the next ex-date would ordinarily land between Aug 11, 2026 and Aug 27, 2026, which is a pattern rather than an announcement. Read year one as twelve months from your purchase date, not the rest of this calendar year.
Frequently Asked Questions
What annual dividend figure should I use for QQQI?
$7.6250 per share, the sum of the 12 split-adjusted QQQI payments with ex-dates between August 20, 2025 and August 18, 2026, read from NEOS Investments: QQQI fund page (distributions) on 2026-08-18. It is already in the field. It records what was paid; it is not a rate the payer has committed to.
What growth rate should I put in the QQQI calculator?
Zero for the run you take seriously, then a second run at a rate you can defend out loud. QQQI has no two comparable windows on our record, so there is no realised rate to offer you and we will not invent one. On our QQQI record the earliest it can be filled is January 2027.
How many QQQI shares would pay $5,000 a month?
About 7,869 shares at the trailing payout of $7.6250 per share, which is $60,000 a year. Spread over 12 payments a year that averages $5,000.09 a payment, and the payments are not equal. At the price implied by NEOS Investments' published Distribution rate (sponsor-published) of 14.01%, that share count costs about $427,723, which is arithmetic on two published figures rather than a price quote.
Does the projection subtract QQQI's 0.68% expense ratio?
Not separately, and on the income side it does not need to: QQQI's recorded distributions are already net of fund expenses, because the fee comes out before a distribution is declared. The value column is where the omission bites, since the projection grows the position at whatever price growth you type with no annual charge deducted from it.
Why does the QQQI calculator ask me for the share price?
Because we publish no prices. Every figure here carries the date its source was read, and a live quote cannot. The one price-shaped figure on this page, $54.36, is not a quote either: it is the price at which NEOS Investments' published Distribution rate (sponsor-published) of 14.01% as of 2026-07-31 and our own recorded payout agree.
Every payment, split adjustment, and calendar-year total behind these figures is on the QQQI dividend history page. Other payers whose distributions come out of an options programme are listed on the coverage table. The general-purpose tools sit on the calculator hub, and the model is written out on the methodology page.