Opinions Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA
BMO US High Dividend Covered Call ETFZWH.TOCOMMENTMay 15, 2017
Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTAUnknown
$21.02
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$26.75
As of Jun 05, 2026. Market Open.
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Main thing is it's not leveraged. Holds all the big, household names. Dividends are small on US stocks, so most of the premium you're getting is from the covered calls which are capital gains. Hasn't come back from April because it doesn't have all the super-charged tech stocks. Yield is around 6-6.5%.
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TOP PICK
Likes it as a sector play--high-dividend US stocks--and for the dividend of 6%. It's broadly based, and bonds don't pay much or anything.
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COMMENT
There is space for these ETFs for yield seekers. One of the challenges in 2020 was that dividend paying stocks did terrible relative to technology that does not pay dividends. Still likes them for conservative investors.
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ZWE-T vs. ZWH-T. With covered calls, when you are in a slightly up or down or sideways market, the call brings in a premium and dampens the volatility. But when it is in a very strong uptrend, the covered write lops off the top of the uptrend. The upside is capped. In a sharp declined followed by a snap-back rally, the same thing applies. You should have both for covered write portfolios to increase diversification if you are going to have them.
Exposure with dividends to the US through ETF’s, Dow, S&P, and/or techs? If you want dividends, the NASDAQ is not the place to go. Going back 100 years, the large cap US stock market, S&P has had a dividend yield of about 4%. Currently, the dividend payout is less than half of that. The companies that are not giving extra money back to shareholders in the form of dividends, are giving it back in a different way by buying back shares. If you want a dividend focused strategy, you want to be diversified. The Dow is a bad index because it is poorly weighted. One of his favourite ways to play dividends in the US is through an ETF, ZWH. You are getting a yield of around 3.5%-4% on the dividend side, and it is diversified across all the economic sectors, and has a covered call overlay to enhance the yield.