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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 August 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGLD | FT Cboe Vest Gold Target Income ETF | 5 yr | 23.41% | 92 | +103.4% | $552M |
| JEPQ | JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF | 4 yr | 13.98% | 90 | +45.3% | $41.6B |
| KBWD | Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF | 16 yr | 12.71% | 86 | +12.8% | $420M |
| TUGN | STF Tactical Growth & Income ETF | 4 yr | 11.80% | 90 | +32.5% | $84M |
| SPYI | NEOS S&P 500 High Income ETF | 4 yr | 11.69% | 90 | +20.9% | $11.4B |
| RIET | Hoya Capital High Dividend Yield ETF | 5 yr | 10.73% | 97 | 0.0% | $109M |
| TYLG | Global X Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETF | 4 yr | 11.38% | 90 | +114.1% | $15M |
| YYY | Amplify High Income ETF | 13 yr | 12.53% | 80 | +0.7% | $732M |
| HIPS | GraniteShares HIPS US High Income ETF | 7 yr | 10.89% | 87 | 0.0% | $116M |
| XRMI | Global X S&P 500 Risk Managed Income ETF | 5 yr | 11.91% | 79 | +17.0% | $50M |
| PFFA | Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF | 8 yr | 9.77% | 96 | +6.5% | $2.5B |
| QRMI | Global X Nasdaq 100 Risk Managed Income ETF | 5 yr | 11.75% | 79 | +15.7% | $15M |
| QYLD | Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF | 13 yr | 11.70% | 79 | +30.6% | $8.2B |
| ICAP | InfraCap Equity Income Fund ETF | 5 yr | 10.11% | 90 | +26.7% | $123M |
| XYLD | Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF | 13 yr | 11.78% | 76 | +40.3% | $3.2B |
| NDIV | Amplify Natural Resources Dividend Income ETF | 4 yr | 11.44% | 77 | +349.9% | $28M |
| SRET | Global X SuperDividend REIT ETF | 11 yr | 9.76% | 87 | +12.6% | $232M |
| PTA | Cohen & Steers Tax-Advantaged Preferred Securities and Income Fund | 6 yr | 8.53% | 96 | +4.3% | — |
| AMAX | Adaptive Hedged Multi-Asset Income ETF | 5 yr | 11.79% | 68 | +22.4% | $69M |
| PFFR | Virtus InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF | 7 yr | 8.35% | 95 | +8.1% | $121M |
| AMZA | InfraCap MLP ETF | 4 yr | 8.10% | 97 | +31.1% | $467M |
| RYLD | Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF | 7 yr | 11.74% | 65 | +30.0% | $1.4B |
| ALTY | Global X Alternative Income ETF | 11 yr | 7.65% | 90 | +2.8% | $46M |
| KBWY | Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF | 16 yr | 7.98% | 86 | +16.6% | $314M |
| QQQH | NEOS Nasdaq-100 Hedged Equity Income ETF | 7 yr | 8.72% | 78 | +31.7% | $384M |
| HYEM | VanEck Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF | 14 yr | 7.12% | 95 | +6.8% | $524M |
| CGMS | Capital Group U.S. Multi-Sector Income ETF | 4 yr | 7.04% | 96 | +1.8% | $5.4B |
| ANGL | VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF | 14 yr | 6.96% | 94 | +10.0% | $3.1B |
| BSJU | BulletShares 2030 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 4 yr | 6.88% | 95 | +28.5% | $319M |
| JHPI | John Hancock Preferred Income ETF | 5 yr | 7.62% | 85 | +12.6% | $218M |
| GTOQ | Invesco High Yield Systematic Bond ETF | 6 yr | 6.81% | 95 | +17.5% | $182M |
| PGF | Invesco Financial Preferred ETF | 20 yr | 7.28% | 88 | +15.0% | $674M |
| FDHY | Fidelity High Yield Factor ETF | 8 yr | 6.44% | 98 | +2.3% | $580M |
| QHY | WisdomTree U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Fund | 10 yr | 6.41% | 98 | +4.6% | $242M |
| FSYD | Fidelity Sustainable High Yield ETF | 4 yr | 6.50% | 96 | +1.9% | $146M |
| AHYB | American Century Select High Yield ETF | 5 yr | 6.31% | 98 | +2.1% | $62M |
| PGHY | Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF | 13 yr | 6.91% | 89 | +15.5% | $225M |
| BSJT | Invesco BulletShares 2029 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 5 yr | 6.46% | 95 | +13.0% | $586M |
| PGX | Invesco Preferred ETF | 18 yr | 6.97% | 88 | +12.5% | $3.8B |
| FHYS | Federated Hermes Short Duration High Yield ETF | 5 yr | 6.82% | 89 | +14.3% | $55M |
| PCEF | Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF | 16 yr | 6.88% | 86 | +12.4% | $810M |
| PRFD | PIMCO Preferred And Capital Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 3 yr | 5.93% | 99 | +1.1% | $237M |
| JCPI | JPMorgan Inflation Managed Bond ETF | 4 yr | 6.04% | 96 | +459.6% | $879M |
| HYZD | WisdomTree Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond Fund | 13 yr | 6.10% | 95 | +3.5% | $264M |
| EMLC | VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF | 16 yr | 6.06% | 95 | +5.2% | $4.8B |
| HNDL | Strategy Shares Nasdaq 7 Handl Index ETF | 9 yr | 6.97% | 82 | +3.7% | $630M |
| JEPI | JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF | 6 yr | 7.58% | 75 | +5.5% | $45.8B |
| XEMD | JP Morgan USD Emerging Markets 1-10 Years Bond ETF | 4 yr | 6.43% | 88 | +8.3% | $882M |
| ELD | WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | 16 yr | 6.03% | 93 | +14.0% | $142M |
| DMBS | Mortgage ETF | 3 yr | 5.62% | 99 | +0.7% | $704M |
| BSJS | Invesco BulletShares 2028 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 6 yr | 5.98% | 93 | +12.6% | $743M |
| PCY | Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF | 19 yr | 5.94% | 93 | +22.4% | $1.4B |
| JHCB | John Hancock Corporate Bond ETF | 5 yr | 5.74% | 96 | +6.5% | $97M |
| JHMB | John Hancock Mortgage Backed Securities ETF | 5 yr | 5.52% | 99 | +0.3% | $205M |
| IFLN | Invesco Bloomberg Enhanced Fallen Angels ETF | 19 yr | 5.98% | 91 | +38.6% | — |
| BUYW | Main Buywrite ETF | 4 yr | 5.98% | 90 | +13.6% | $1.3B |
| FLCO | Franklin Liberty Investment Grade Corporate ETF | 10 yr | 5.49% | 98 | +0.3% | $554M |
| PQDI | Principal Exchange-Traded Funds - Principal Spectrum Tax-Advantaged Dividend Active ETF | 6 yr | 5.91% | 91 | +14.1% | $70M |
| EMCB | WisdomTree Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund | 14 yr | 5.55% | 96 | +3.2% | $99M |
| IHY | VanEck International High Yield Bond ETF | 14 yr | 6.11% | 87 | +6.8% | $43M |
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 Safety Scores refresh on every build, so membership and ranking re-compute automatically.
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