Global X S&P 500® Covered Call & Growth ETF
XYLG NYSE Arca
The Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF follows a “covered call” or “buy-write” strategy, in which the Fund buys the stocks in the S&P 500 Index and “writes” or “sells” corresponding call options on approximately 50% of the value of the portfolio of stocks in the same index. By writing calls...
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- Dividend yield
- 12.66% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 10.2% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.79 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 24.9329.98
How XYLG has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 7Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, XYLG returned +32.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +14.9 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±10% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −6.9% on Mar 30, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 2% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.79 means XYLG has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average29.71 +0.8%
- 26-day average29.57 +1.2%
- 50-day average29.35 +2.0%
- 200-day average27.89 +7.3%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 127 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 3.79
- Last paid
- Sep 21, 2026
Last 12 months
3.67 USD / shareWhere XYLG shows up
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About Global X S&P 500® Covered Call & Growth ETF
The Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF follows a “covered call” or “buy-write” strategy, in which the Fund buys the stocks in the S&P 500 Index and “writes” or “sells” corresponding call options on approximately 50% of the value of the portfolio of stocks in the same index. By writing calls on 50% of the portfolio, the strategy allows investors to capture half the upside potential of the underlying index.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- XYLG
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US37954Y2770
- CUSIP
- 37954Y277
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Smart Betas
- Industry
- Covered Calls
- Benchmark
- CBOE S&P 500® Half BuyWrite Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 7, 2026
Dataas of Oct 8, 2026
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