If you want to keep your portfolio safe from incessant volatility, invest in dividend-payers.
In fact, here are two interesting ways to do just that.
Look at the AAPL WeeklyPay ETF (SYM: AAPW).
With an expense ratio of 0.99%, the ETF pays weekly distributions that correspond to 120% the calendar week total return of Apple. All by investing in total return swap agreements and Apple stock. Plus, it just paid a dividend of $0.234571 for the week of June 16.
And it paid a dividend of $0.264833 for the week of June 10.
Better, you don’t need to know a thing about swaps to take part. All you have to do is invest in the AAPW and collect dividends every week.
Fueling upside, shares of Apple are just starting to pivot higher from triple bottom support dating back to early May. Plus, analysts at First Shanghai Securities just upgraded Apple to a buy rating with a price target of $230 based on the firm’s growing confidence in the tech giant.
Apple also declared a 26-cent quarterly dividend, which was paid on May 15. It also authorized a $100 billion stock buyback program, which should help force its stock higher.
Apple earnings haven’t been too shabby either. In its most recent quarter, the company’s EPS of $1.65 beat estimates by three cents. Revenue of $95.4 billion, up 6% year over year, beat estimates by $840 million.
Apple CFO Kevan Parekh added, “Our March quarter business performance drove EPS growth of 8 percent and $24 billion in operating cash flow, allowing us to return $29 billion to shareholders,” as quoted in Apple’s earnings press release. “And thanks to our high levels of customer loyalty and satisfaction, our installed base of active devices once again reached a new all-time high across all product categories and geographic segments.”
YieldMax BRK.B Option Income Strategy ETF (SYM: BRKC)
With an expense ratio of 0.99%, the YieldMax BRK.B Option Income Strategy ETF (BRKC) does not directly invest in the BRK.B stock. Instead, it generates monthly income by selling/writing call options on BRK.B, which will allow it to deliver monthly dividends.
With this one, you don’t need to know anything about options. Simply invest, collect your dividends on a monthly basis and relax.
In fact, according to a YieldMax press release:
“BRKC is the newest member of the YieldMax ETF family and like all YieldMax ETFs, aims to deliver current income to investors. With respect to distributions, BRKC will be a Group A ETF, and its first distribution is expected to be announced on July 9th, 2025.”
Granted, BRK.B did pullback from about $540 to $482.35 in recent weeks.
However, it’s starting to bounce back after catching strong support at its 200-day moving average again. Since early 2025, BRK.B has successfully pivoted higher after testing its 200-day moving average. In fact, in January, it bounced from about $440 to a high of $540. In April, it bounced back from about $460 to $540. And we’re just starting to see it bounce from $482.35.
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