Filter 5,600+ income-focused ETFs by yield, Distribution Safety Score™, expense ratio, AUM, and distribution frequency — then narrow by issuer, underlying, or strategy tags. Save your favorite screens, share them as links, and send finalists straight into a side-by-side comparison. Prefer a curated starting point? Browse the ETF lists and refine from there.
Free to try — no account needed. Every filter is open to everyone, with the first 10 matches shown; a free account unlocks the full result list.
Built specifically for income ETFs — covered call funds, dividend growers, BDC and preferred funds — with the filters income investors actually use.
Set a minimum yield, a safety-score range, or both. The screener also computes Safety-Adjusted Yield — distribution rate weighted by each fund's safety score — so a well-supported 8% payer can outrank a shaky 12% one.
Open screener →Weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual — filter to the payout cadence your income plan needs. Perfect for building a portfolio that pays every week or smoothing out a quarterly-heavy schedule.
Open screener →Cap the expense ratio, require a minimum AUM for liquidity, or exclude funds younger than your comfort level with inception-date filters. Range hints show you how many funds each constraint keeps in play.
Open screener →Narrow by issuer, by the underlying a covered call fund writes against, or by strategy tags like covered call, dividend growth, or BDC. Active filters appear as removable chips so you always know exactly what's applied.
Open screener →Save a screen you like and reload it in one click, or copy a share link that encodes every active filter — send it to a friend and they see the exact same result set, updated with the latest data.
Open screener →Switch column presets to focus on income, cost, or performance views, highlight the funds you already own or watch, and send your finalists into the side-by-side comparator to settle the tie.
Open screener →Every column you can turn on in the picker is listed here, using the same short labels as the table. A blank cell means Dividend Vision does not have enough reliable data for that fund; it does not mean zero. When a header includes a period (1M, 1Y, 5Y, Max), that period is the window used for the calculation. Turn columns on from Columns in the screener.
Green dot when the ticker is in the portfolio you currently have loaded.
Star when the ticker is on your working watchlist. Click it to add or remove.
How often Dividend Vision users hold or look up this ticker. Higher is more widely followed on the site, not a quality score.
The exchange symbol. Click it to open the fund's profile.
The fund's full name.
The sponsor or manager. Click through to that issuer's page.
ETF, CEF, BDC, REIT, stock, preferred, MLP, mutual fund, or money-market fund.
How often the fund pays: weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual.
Assets under management. Larger funds are usually easier to trade; tiny funds can be illiquid.
Latest market close per share.
Average daily share volume. A low figure can mean wide spreads.
When the fund started trading. Younger funds have shorter return and distribution histories.
Annual fund fee as a percent of assets. It comes out of the NAV, so it quietly reduces every distribution.
Current distribution rate: the latest indicated annual payout divided by the share price. Headline yield, not a guarantee of future income.
Dividend Vision's 0–100 score for how well the current payout looks supported. Higher is safer. Pair it with Dist. Rate so a high yield is not the only filter.
Distribution rate weighted by the fund's Distribution Safety Score, so a well-supported 8% can outrank a shaky 12%.
Fund total return over that window: share-price change plus distributions reinvested on the ex-date. This is not Dist. Rate and not Price Return. Blank when the fund is younger than the window.
Share-price change only over that window — distributions are excluded. Use it to see whether a high payer is also losing capital. The labels match TR: 1M, 3M, 6M, YTD, 1Y, 2Y, 3Y, 5Y, 10Y, Max.
The steady annual rate that would have produced the fund's actual total return over the window chosen in the Performance panel (3Y, 5Y, 10Y, or Max). Blank if the history is too short — never shown as 0%.
How far the fund's lifetime total return runs ahead of or behind SPY (S&P 500) or QQQ (Nasdaq-100) over the same window, in percentage points. Positive means the fund won since inception.
What the fund earned beyond a mix of plain index ETFs that copy its daily behavior. Positive means it beat that recipe; negative means the recipe did better. Blank when the fund is not in the analysed set yet.
Average trailing-12-month yield over the window in the header (1Y, 3Y, or 5Y). Compare with today's Dist. Rate to see if the current yield is unusual for this fund.
How far today's Dist. Rate sits above (+) or below (−) this fund's own 5-year average yield, as a percent of that average. +15 means 15% richer than usual.
Where today's yield sits in this fund's own 5-year monthly range: 0 is the lowest it has been, 100 the highest.
Dist. Rate plus 1-year price return. A 12% payer whose price fell 10% reads +2. A floor of 0 keeps funds whose price decline, if any, was smaller than the payout.
The most recent payment versus the one before it, in percent. Positive is a raise; negative is a cut. Option-income funds re-strike every payment, so small moves are often noise.
Cash paid in the last 12 months versus the 12 months before that. Needs two full years of payments; otherwise blank.
Year-over-year change in comparable recurring distributions (1Y), or compound annual growth of distributions over 3 or 5 years. Blank when the fund has not paid long enough — never 0%.
How many payment-over-payment raises or cuts (of at least 1%) end at the latest payment.
How many cuts in the last 12 months or 3 years, and how many months since the last cut. Blank when payment history is too short.
Sensitivity to the broad market. 1.0 moves with it; 0.5 about half as much. Blank when it cannot be computed.
Deepest peak-to-trough decline over that window, as a negative percent (−15 means it fell 15% from a high). Total-return basis, so a payout is not counted as a loss.
Annualized standard deviation of daily total returns over the window in the header. 15 is a typical broad-market year; 30+ is very choppy.
Excess total return over 3-month T-bills per unit of volatility. Above 1 is strong; below 0 means the fund trailed cash.
Like Sharpe, but only downside moves count as risk, so big up-days are not penalized.
The fund's worst complete calendar-year total return on record, including reinvested distributions. The unfinished current year is excluded. A value of -18% means its worst full year lost 18%.
Latest reported net asset value per share. Applies to funds, not to common stocks.
The market price compared with the latest net asset value (NAV). Positive values are a premium above NAV; negative values are a discount below NAV. The latest close and NAV may occasionally come from different dates.
Reported number of positions. Blank when the fund publishes no breakdown.
Weight of the largest position, of the ten largest, and of the largest sector. High figures mean a concentrated book.
The percentage of the fund's reported equity exposure in North America. The source does not reliably split the United States from Canada, so this is broader than “US %.”
The percentage change in assets under management over the period shown in the column header. It combines investor flows with gains or losses caused by the fund's price.
Estimated net creations minus redemptions over the shown period. It removes the effect of price movement from the AUM change. This is an estimate from AUM snapshots, not a flow figure reported by the issuer.
Consecutive calendar months of estimated inflows or outflows ending with the latest month. A positive 3 means three months of inflows; a negative 3 means three months of outflows.
Yes when the ticker is already in your loaded portfolio.
How much of the fund's known exposure your loaded portfolio already owns. It uses the fund's top-10 holdings and declared underlying, so it can understate overlap in very diversified funds. It stays blank without a loaded portfolio or holdings data.
Cash payment dates matching the timing filters you set (month of year, week of month, weekday). Past payments do not guarantee future dates.
Used by Find Alternatives. “Matches 5 of 6” means the candidate beats the reference ticker on five of the six criteria you selected, such as yield, safety, fees, return, drawdown, beta, or portfolio overlap.
Sorting by yield surfaces the funds most likely to cut. Pair a yield floor with a Distribution Safety Score minimum so the screen rewards payouts that are actually supported by the fund's strategy and history — not just the biggest headline number.
A 1% expense ratio on an income fund quietly consumes a meaningful slice of every distribution. Screening with a cost ceiling — and comparing similar strategies from different issuers — often finds a near-identical fund at half the price.
Two funds with identical annual yields feel very different when one pays weekly and the other pays twice a year. Filtering by distribution frequency lets you engineer a cash-flow schedule first, then optimize yield and safety within it.
The screener is one view of the Dividend Vision asset explorer. From any result you can open the fund's full profile, add it to a watchlist, drop it into the comparator, or track it in the dividend tracker alongside your real holdings.
Filter 5,600+ income ETFs by yield, safety, cost, and cadence — no sign-up needed to start. Create a free account to see every match and save the screens you build.