IEI Dividend Type Payments
Although IEI has no upcoming (meaning, Board-approved and announced) dividends, you can sell covered calls on iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF to create 12 extra dividend type payments per year to boost its yield. Let's look at some recent prices (last updated Tue 4:16 PM ET):
| iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bid | Ask | Last | Change | Volume | P/E | Market Cap |
| 120.05 | 120.10 | 120.12 | -0.19 | 667K | - | 0.0B |
IEI Dividend-Like Income Using Covered Calls
With IEI at 120.12, here's a table showing how big the annual "dividend" (ie. total annual call premium received) would need to be to attain 3%, 5%, and 10% annual yields. Also shown is the equivalent number of cents/day necessary to achieve each yield:
| Annual Yield | Annual Premium | Cents/Day |
|---|---|---|
| 3% | 3.60 | 1.0 |
| 5% | 6.01 | 1.6 |
| 10% | 12.01 | 3.3 |
So now we need to find out of the money covered calls that pay at least the prescribed cents/day amount of time premium. That will generate income and, because they are out of the money, leave room for some upside potential on the stock. Here are some examples:
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| Top 10 Open Interest For Dec 21 Expiration | Top 5 High Yield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | DUST dividend | 6. | NSSC dividend | 1. | dividend | |
| 2. | NOVT dividend | 7. | MOD dividend | 2. | dividend | |
| 3. | MMS dividend | 8. | VV dividend | 3. | dividend | |
| 4. | VSI dividend | 9. | EC dividend | 4. | dividend | |
| 5. | DXJS dividend | 10. | NTWK dividend | 5. | dividend | |
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