XYLD: Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF

What does XYLD hold?#

This fund owns the S&P 500 stocks and sells call options on that index to earn extra income. In return, it gives up much of the gains when stocks rise. It can still lose value when stocks fall.

It tracks the Cboe S&P 500 BuyWrite Index. It had 505 holdings as of October 16, 2026, according to Global X (Mirae Asset).

What is the XYLD expense ratio?#

XYLD charges 0.6% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.6% fee comes to about $60 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has XYLD done since 2013?#

From June 2013 to October 2026, XYLD returned about 8.5% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $29,435 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

XYLD returns by year#

What was XYLD’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. XYLD’s worst fall was −33.5%, from February 19, 2020 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on March 15, 2021.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold XYLD?#

No classic strategy holds XYLD yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does XYLD compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for XYLD:

• GPIX: Goldman Sachs S&P 500 Premium Income ETF, 0.29% a year
• JEPI: JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF, 0.35% a year
• JEPQ: JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF, 0.35% a year
• DIVO: Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF, 0.56% a year

See all 8 XYLD alternatives, compared on the same dates as XYLD.

Test XYLD in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add XYLD, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for XYLD. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from Global X (Mirae Asset). We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.