The free dividend tracker to help you grow your wealth. Link your brokerage accounts and MerryDiv automatically syncs your holdings and dividends.
Data last updated: Oct 04, 2026
Snapshot (as of Oct 04, 2026): ProShares - Ultra QQQ (QLD) pays a $0.12 annual dividend ($0.03 quarterly), yielding 0.13% at $98.13/share. Next ex-dividend date 2026-09-23. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 0.13%
Annual Dividend: $0.12 per share
Ex-Dividend Date: 2026-09-23
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Sector: Financial Services
Years of Dividend History: 17
ProShares - Ultra QQQ dividend income is a secondary feature of this ETF, not its primary draw. QLD is designed to deliver twice the daily performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index, before fees and expenses, making price return the dominant story. The fund pays quarterly, with a trailing annual dividend rate of $0.1168 per share and a next ex-dividend date of June 24, 2026. At a current yield of 0.13%, QLD stock suits investors drawn to Nasdaq-100 exposure rather than income.
ProShares - Ultra QQQ pays out dividends with a payout ratio classified as not applicable (fund/ETF), as the distributions reflect fund income rather than a fixed share of earnings. ProShares - Ultra QQQ dividend safety is therefore tied to the income generated within the fund itself, which can vary considerably given the leveraged, daily-reset structure targeting double the Nasdaq-100's return. The most significant pressure on the payout is that structure: distributions have swung from $0.0011 in 2020 to $0.1371 in 2024, showing the payout is highly sensitive to fund income conditions rather than a managed dividend policy.
ProShares - Ultra QQQ dividend history shows a CAGR of 1.8% per year from 2006 to 2025. Per-share payments moved from $0.0847 to $0.1179 over that window (2026 is a partial year and excluded from the CAGR calculation). The largest annual increase in the window was 284.0% in 2019, but the data also contains at least one year-over-year decline exceeding 5%, which reflects how erratically fund income can move year to year.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +29.3% | $0.05 (2022) | $0.12 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +43.8% | $0.02 (2019) | $0.12 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +30.7% | $0.01 (2014) | $0.12 (2025) |
QLD stock is a poor fit for dividend investors seeking income. The yield is low (below 2%), sitting at just 0.13% today, barely above its 5-year average of 0.12%. The 1.8% annual dividend CAGR over nearly two decades amounts to minimal income growth in absolute terms, and the payout history is volatile rather than progressive, with no consecutive years of dividend increases. What an investor gets with QLD is amplified Nasdaq-100 exposure; what they give up is any meaningful or predictable income stream.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | $0.0271 |
| 2026-06-24 | $0.0607 |
| 2026-03-25 | $0.0132 |
| 2025-12-24 | $0.0226 |
| 2025-09-24 | $0.0204 |
| 2025-06-25 | $0.0621 |
| 2025-03-26 | $0.0128 |
| 2024-12-23 | $0.0307 |
| 2024-09-25 | $0.0257 |
| 2024-06-26 | $0.0530 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $0.1010 |
| 2025 | $0.1179 |
| 2024 | $0.1371 |
| 2023 | $0.1271 |
| 2022 | $0.0546 |
Project income from QLD with the QLD dividend calculator or track your full portfolio with the dividend tracker.