NAV
Navistar International
stock NYSE

ok.. since you seem to know more about better performing mutual funds.. lets have an analysis.. give me a flexicap fund that is better than PPFAS FC based on whatever criteria you think is important.. Don't come and give me a small cap or mid cap or thematic fund.. we need to compare apples to apples..
for your reference, PPFAS FC hit all time high in NAV yesterday,,
If you are going to say bad things about anything in general, you need to back it up with data and facts..

PLTY is a YieldMax ETF that doesn't hold any actual PLTR stock. It trades options on PLTR stock and pays the money it makes from trading PLTR as distributions (so-called "dividends") to shareholders of PLTY. They aren't actual dividends because PLTR doesn't pay dividends, and even if PLTR paid dividends - it doesn't - PLTY doesn't own any PLTR stock so it wouldn't be entitled to any PLTR dividends.
**Even accounting for the "dividends"**, you would have made more money investing in PLTR than in PLTY. Scroll down to "Growth of $10,000" with reinveted dividends in this link.
https://totalrealreturns.com/n/PLTR,PLTY
PLTY is one of the few YieldMax ETFs that hasn't had any "NAV erosion" - dropping share price - yet. Almost all YieldMax ETFs have had severe NAV erosion. Learn more here
https://www.reddit.com/r/dividends/comments/1hrcnef/yieldmax_etfs_and_share_price_nav_erosion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Ok now show total value including NAV gains/losses

Msty, there's NAV erosion but great divs

Thanks. What’s your opinion on why the investment trusts haven’t done better? One I like right now is OCN, which is trading at a huge discount to NAV but has a big catalyst in the next few months.

Like most things in life, it depends :D
Everybody's favorite ETF is SCHD. their yield is tame at 3.94%, but their total return is a whole lot better. You get a steady income and do not forego growth.
On energy I have HESM, sporting a 7.31% yield. Midstream energy companies can suffer during recessions but the long term demand for all sorts of energy is strong.
One I have a ton of faith on is VICI, 5.39% yield,. It is a Real Estate Investment Trust that specializes in casinos. As a matter of fact they are probably the only REIT that collected 100% rents during Covid. Who would have thought casinos had so much money... They are expanding their market (number of properties under management) so there is room for capital growth.
O is another solid REIT that has been paying and raising dividends for 27 years straight (5.73%). That includes both the dot-com and the housing crisis.
The BDC sector is heading towards turbulence with both high interest and maybe a recession, but their high yields are worth the risk. I own MAIN, CSWC, and HTGC.
I got out of CUBE (storage units REIT) but their 4.76% yield is solid.
GUT is a closed end fund meant to generate income. They have pretty much 0 growth since inception 25 years ago, but they have been paying north of 10% yield for those 25 years. Their NAV premium has always been ugly but they have always delivered. Honestly I expect a 20% yield cut anytime and that would still have them yielding 9.4%, which would not be the worst thing in the world.
I have others but that should give you some stuff to research.

Many people call enything outside of what they consider normal for investing as risky without evaluating the risk. If you are just investing in low cost stocks. you don't really know what is out there in ETFs and CETs. \]
QQQY is one of many new covered call funds. Covered calls a trading stratagy were developed about 40 years ago and were used by institutions investors successfully for decades. Later brokerages allowed individuals to use them. And about 15 years ago SEC allowed ETFS and funds to use them.
Covered call funds use teh trading stratagy to covert price volatility to income froQQQI also has a yield of 13% while QQQY has yield of 90% Now covered call are flexible and can generate any yield you want But pushing the yield up to 90% can cause problems Such as NAV erosion and increased yield variability.
However QQQI its yield is 13% and it does capitur some of the captial gains of the index it use. Also it idoes tax loss harvesting to lower the tax on the dividneds you get. The average total reuturn dividends +captial gains is going o be very close to the long term average total return of S&P500,
I own QQQI but funds like QQQY I am not going to invest in. Most covered call funds with yields above about 20 percent I have looked at don't look that good No captial gains, NAV erosion, and may don't even hold the stocks or assets they write covered calls on. Mans just hold cash equivalents. With Case Equivelents there is no way a fund can capture any capital gains. and NAV will never mimicthe assets they trade..

It does affect NAV

But they are giving you income from their option trading, so it shouldn't affect its NAV, right?

Be ready to trade it in for MSTY once the NAV starts to erode

Learn how dividends work and what NAV erosion is

I’m not saying if it’s value or not - just that there can still be further value even if it’s at 52 week highs. Gotta see how these names are trading relative to NAV.

You have to be smart about dividend investing. An ETF is never the optimal choice for dividend investing, easiest by far, but never optimal. I buy about 10-20% of dividend stocks each year, depending on which ones are doing best, and then offload them in 1-2 years.
These stocks have to meet 5 criteria for me. 
1) Do I see the stocks NAV going up enough with dividends included to outperform SCHG in 1-2 years?( Huge fan of SCHG, best sp500 in my opinion)
2) Does the stock have a Dividend that outperforms the best Dividends ETF's? (SCHD/ FDL)
3) Are these strong companies that are leading very unlikely to fade away?
4) Does this company have a decent profit margin and revenue compared to it competitors?
5) How does it compare to other companies in the same sector around the same market cap?
I Will look for new Dividend stocks around Q1 or Q2 2026
This year I am investing into VZ, PFE, F, TGT.
Following the above criteria I have managed to beat SCHG in past years, when I average out my dividend stocks for the year, with growth and dividends combined. 
On years I am lazy I don't even buy dividend stocks as they do take due diligence to find the optimal ones, if you don't buy an ETF.

You're losing the $1.00 constant NAV of the mutual fund. future SGOV sales will be reported to you every tax year on an IRS 1099B which you then have to report on your 1040 Schedule D.
This is the reason why I don't do SGOV.

Not a good strategy due to nasty NAV decay in these products.

1. Mining stocks don’t trade on PE. They trade on P/NAV, and Barrick already trades at a premium to NAV.
2. No one is pricing Barrick as if it’s going out of business. That’s a nonsensical take. 
Don’t invest in mining if you’re not a specialist. You need to Analyse these names completely differently than the industrials / consumer / TMT names most of us are used to.

Alright degenerates, I’ve got one for you that nobody is talking about yet, and I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t shown up here. I just spent way too many hours going down the rabbit hole on a ticker called **$DFDV**, and this thing is basically the **first public Solana accumulator** hiding in plain sight on the Nasdaq. LOOK IT UP.
Da Alpha: while everyone’s hyped about the idea of Solana ETFs, these guys are doing something *completely* different. ETFs just give you temporary exposure to price movement. You pay fees, you track the price, and you get zero yield. That’s it. You’re renting exposure. $DFDV is out here **permanently stacking SOL**, staking it, running validators, and actually compounding their position over time. Their entire business is to **increase how much SOL backs each share of DFDV**. That’s their KPI. They don’t sell. They just stack.
They already run one of the largest public validators on Solana with over **650,000 SOL delegated**, and they’re partnered with big names like **Kraken** and **BitGo**. They even just announced a validator partnership with **$BONK**, the top Solana memecoin with almost a million holders. Imagine telling your financial advisor that you’re long a public company that’s partnered with a dog coin on Solana. Absolute degeneracy. SEND ITTTTT.
But here’s the real kicker. Their capital strategy is actually **smart as hell**. When their stock trades way above the value of the SOL they hold, they sell stock **into the market** and use the cash to buy even more SOL, **growing SOL per share** for everyone already holding. It’s literally accretive dilution. And when their stock compresses back down toward NAV, they **pivot to convertibles** to avoid blowing out the cap table. They also recently filed an S-3 to buy $1 billion in SOL.
And if you’re wondering why they aren’t doing this with Bitcoin, it's pretty simple....Solana is faster, cheaper, and **earns staking yield**. SOL is also way more volatile and still growing into its fundamentals (literally most used chain in crypto, most revenue, most users, etc.). DFDV is buying SOL, staking it while it vests, and compounding harder than any ETF ever could. Meanwhile, they’re scaling their validator business with Kraken, BONK, and others. They’re literally turning public market capital into validator rewards and stacking SOL on behalf of shareholders.
Oh, and the backstory is just as wild. They quietly took over a random Nasdaq company and converted it into a crypto treasury vehicle. No SEC approval needed. No Nasdaq vote. Just a friendly takeover. Now they’re sitting on a live listing, stacking SOL, and partnering with the biggest names in the Solana ecosystem.

I gave up on spacs a couple years ago when it was clear that the money tap had been turned off and the days of excitement were over. Has anything changed, or is it still just waiting around to pick up pennies and hoping for a despac squeeze? I never held through redemption and the removal of the NAV floor, so depacs don't interest me.

There is an expense ratio, it's just not obvious. The employee compensation, property taxes, utilities, all that stuff comes out of the fund. I haven't bothered to dig into their financials to figure out how much it is costing them, but it probably isn't much when compared to the NAV of the fund.

Not always true. If it’s in a fee based account there is a very good chance he would get that at NAV