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Is Return of Capital (ROC) Good or Bad?

Ryan
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4 min readDec 8, 2024

| At first glance, some investors believe that Return of Capital in ETF dividend payouts is just your money being returned to you. Now, whether that is good or bad is more a factor of timing and, yes, taxes. Let me explain.

This past summer, I started investing in Option Strategy Income ETFs that sell options on reference assets and distribute that income to investors on a weekly or monthly basis. This strategy enables some jaw-dropping yields of 20, 50, and even 100%+ annual dividend yields. But in the ‘fine print’, there is something called Return of Capital. To the uninitiated, this can be a turn off, so let’s clarify what this really is and when it is good and when it is bad.

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