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Most Consistent Monthly Income ETFs
Monthly-paying ETFs that clear three consistency tests at once — a three-year-plus unbroken payment streak, and a distribution that hasn't been shrinking — ranked so the steadiest monthly income sits on top.
Updated October 2026 · 60 funds
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Our proprietary snapshot of this list — averages and standouts, computed from the funds below. Not investment advice.
For anyone living off their portfolio, consistency beats a big headline yield: a monthly cheque that actually arrives, every month, and doesn't shrink. This page screens the monthly-paying ETF universe for exactly that kind of steadiness, then ranks the survivors by safety-adjusted yield.
To make the list a fund must clear three bars at once — pay monthly, hold an unbroken streak of at least three years, and show a distribution that has not been cut over the past year. It's a deliberately demanding filter, so the result is the dependable core of the monthly-income universe rather than its newest, highest-yielding experiments.
How this screen works
Three consistency tests, then ranked by safety-adjusted yield (yield weighted by the Distribution Safety Score).
- Cadence: pays monthly.
- Streak: at least a 3-year (36-month) unbroken payment streak.
- Trend: the trailing 1-year distribution is flat or rising, not shrinking.
- Rank: by Safety-Adjusted Yield — distribution rate × Distribution Safety Score ÷ 100 — so durable income leads, not the biggest raw yield.
Most Consistent Monthly Income ETFs
Ranked live from our data pipeline on every build — click any column header to re-sort, or open a ticker for the full analysis. We never hard-code the figures.
| Ticker | Fund | Streak | Yield | Distribution Safety Score™ ⓘ | Div growth (1y) | AUM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTQI | First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF | 13 yr | 12.14% | 98 | +3.2% | $1.0B |
| SEPQ | STF Tactical Growth & Income ETF | 4 yr | 12.34% | 90 | +8.6% | $95M |
| CEFS | Saba Closed-End Funds ETF | 9 yr | 12.35% | 88 | 0.0% | $423M |
| SPYI | NEOS S&P 500 High Income ETF | 4 yr | 12.01% | 90 | +2.9% | $12.5B |
| SVOL | Simplify Volatility Premium ETF | 5 yr | 20.38% | 53 | +3.7% | $518M |
| ICAP | InfraCap Equity Income Fund ETF | 5 yr | 11.61% | 90 | +25.3% | $115M |
| JEPQ | JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF | 4 yr | 11.57% | 90 | +7.2% | $43.2B |
| TYLG | Global X Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETF | 4 yr | 11.42% | 90 | +43.6% | $15M |
| YYY | Amplify CEF High Income ETF | 13 yr | 13.99% | 70 | 0.0% | $656M |
| QYLD | Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF | 13 yr | 11.96% | 81 | +6.5% | $8.4B |
| RIET | Hoya Capital High Dividend Yield ETF | 5 yr | 12.40% | 74 | 0.0% | $99M |
| FTHI | First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF | 13 yr | 9.08% | 98 | +4.4% | $2.6B |
| SRET | Global X SuperDividend REIT ETF | 11 yr | 11.34% | 77 | +5.9% | $200M |
| PFFA | Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF | 8 yr | 10.78% | 79 | +1.5% | $2.3B |
| HIPS | GraniteShares HIPS US High Income ETF | 7 yr | 12.24% | 69 | 0.0% | $95M |
| SDVD | FT Vest SMID Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF | 3 yr | 8.52% | 97 | +3.6% | $878M |
| AMZA | InfraCap MLP ETF | 4 yr | 8.44% | 96 | +17.2% | $470M |
| PFFR | Virtus InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF | 7 yr | 8.96% | 88 | +2.5% | $115M |
| NDIV | Amplify Energy & Natural Resources Covered Call ETF | 4 yr | 10.61% | 73 | +125.7% | $33M |
| DOGG | FT Vest DJIA® Dogs 10 Target Income ETF | 3 yr | 8.58% | 90 | +6.4% | $90M |
| RDVI | FT Vest Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF | 4 yr | 8.50% | 90 | +7.0% | $3.8B |
| TDVI | FT Vest Technology Dividend Target Income ETF | 3 yr | 8.16% | 90 | +14.0% | $636M |
| ALTY | Global X Alternative Income ETF | 11 yr | 8.23% | 88 | +6.3% | $45M |
| QQQH | NEOS Nasdaq-100 Hedged Equity Income ETF | 7 yr | 9.28% | 78 | +3.5% | $395M |
| AMAX | Adaptive Hedged Multi-Asset Income ETF | 5 yr | 12.29% | 58 | +27.8% | $76M |
| FCEF | First Trust Income Opportunity ETF | 10 yr | 7.30% | 96 | +1.9% | $81M |
| FALN | iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF | 10 yr | 6.88% | 100 | +4.5% | $1.6B |
| ANGL | VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF | 14 yr | 6.94% | 99 | +3.5% | $3.0B |
| PBP | Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF | 3 yr | 9.73% | 70 | +6.5% | $391M |
| FPE | First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | 14 yr | 7.00% | 97 | +3.3% | $5.9B |
| NUHY | Nuveen ESG High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 7 yr | 7.28% | 93 | +1.9% | $111M |
| FEMB | First Trust Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF | 12 yr | 8.32% | 81 | +14.5% | $380M |
| HYUP | Xtrackers High Beta High Yield Bond ETF | 9 yr | 8.19% | 81 | +0.0% | $45M |
| RDFI | Rareview Dynamic Fixed Income ETF | 4 yr | 8.91% | 74 | +0.3% | $83M |
| DMBS | Mortgage ETF | 3 yr | 6.69% | 98 | +2.2% | $680M |
| HYEM | VanEck Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF | 14 yr | 7.02% | 93 | +2.9% | $509M |
| HYLB | Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 10 yr | 7.02% | 91 | +1.0% | $3.2B |
| MDIV | First Trust Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund | 14 yr | 7.17% | 89 | +7.7% | $411M |
| FPFD | Fidelity Preferred Securities & Inc ETF | 5 yr | 6.78% | 93 | +3.3% | $75M |
| OBND | SPDR Loomis Sayles Opportunistic Bond ETF | 5 yr | 7.30% | 85 | +1.2% | $31M |
| PYLD | PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 3 yr | 6.60% | 94 | 0.0% | $16.4B |
| IGLD | FT Vest Gold Strategy Target Income ETF® | 6 yr | 7.03% | 88 | +234.8% | $597M |
| GEMD | Goldman Sachs Access Emerging Markets USD Bond ETF | 5 yr | 7.08% | 87 | +1.0% | $34M |
| EMLC | VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF | 16 yr | 6.66% | 92 | +5.4% | $5.0B |
| AHYB | American Century Select High Yield ETF | 5 yr | 6.49% | 94 | +3.1% | $60M |
| IFLN | Invesco Bloomberg Enhanced Fallen Angels ETF | 19 yr | 6.46% | 94 | +4.1% | $290M |
| DIV | Global X SuperDividend U.S. ETF | 14 yr | 6.68% | 90 | +1.9% | $764M |
| GHYG | iShares US & Intl High Yield Corp Bond ETF | 14 yr | 6.42% | 93 | +3.1% | $186M |
| PFFD | Global X U.S. Preferred ETF | 9 yr | 6.98% | 85 | 0.0% | $2.0B |
| PGX | Invesco Preferred ETF | 19 yr | 7.23% | 82 | +0.6% | $3.6B |
| QYLG | Global X Nasdaq 100® Covered Call & Growth ETF | 6 yr | 6.89% | 86 | +13.3% | $186M |
| PSK | SPDR® ICE Preferred Securities ETF | 9 yr | 6.81% | 86 | 0.0% | $629M |
| HYS | PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund | 15 yr | 6.97% | 83 | 0.0% | $1.7B |
| EBND | State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF | 9 yr | 6.02% | 96 | +6.5% | $2.3B |
| PRFD | PIMCO Preferred And Capital Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 4 yr | 6.12% | 94 | +4.2% | $233M |
| CGMS | Capital Group U.S. Multi-Sector Income ETF | 4 yr | 6.38% | 90 | +1.0% | $5.4B |
| SPFF | Global X SuperIncome Preferred ETF | 14 yr | 7.07% | 81 | +6.4% | $137M |
| RISR | FolioBeyond Alternative Income and Interest Rate Hedge ETF | 5 yr | 5.83% | 97 | 0.0% | $432M |
| ELD | WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | 16 yr | 6.19% | 91 | +16.0% | $138M |
| HNDL | Strategy Shares Nasdaq 7 Handl Index ETF | 9 yr | 7.03% | 80 | +4.7% | $627M |
Screened and ranked from our own data. Not investment advice.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a monthly ETF "consistent" here?
Three things at once: it pays monthly, it has an unbroken streak of at least three years, and its distribution over the last year is flat or rising rather than shrinking. 60 funds currently clear all three.
How are these ranked?
By Safety-Adjusted Yield — the distribution rate multiplied by the Distribution Safety Score and divided by 100. That rewards funds pairing a solid yield with a durable-looking payout, instead of putting the riskiest high-yielder on top.
Why require a non-shrinking distribution?
A steadily falling monthly payout is the classic sign of NAV erosion in some high-yield funds — the cheque keeps coming but gets smaller. Requiring a flat-or-rising trailing distribution filters those out.
Is a consistent payer automatically safe?
No. Consistency is a strong signal, but future payments depend on future income. The Distribution Safety Score column is there precisely to flag where a long streak may still rest on a stretched payout.
How often does this update?
Streaks, distributions, yields, and Distribution Safety Score readings refresh on every build, so membership and ranking re-compute automatically.
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