Ten thousand dollars dropped into the YieldMax AMD Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:AMDY) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth about $20,144 by the close on May 29, 2026.
The same ten thousand parked in SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) was worth about $11,093
That gap, an income ETF doubling while the broad market grinds out a normal good year, is the kind of result that makes someone forward a screenshot at midnight and ask if it is real. It is real. AMDY closed Friday at $57 against a December 31 starting price of $28, a year-to-date price return of 101%.
SPY is up 11% over the same window. AMDY is running roughly nine times the benchmark and 90 percentage points ahead of it, and that figure is price-only. It does not include the monthly cash distributions AMDY has been throwing off the entire time, which would push total return higher still.