YLDW yields 1.61% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
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YLDW is a multi-asset fund that invests primarily in income-producing securities across equities, bonds, hybrids, and other yield-oriented assets. The fund seeks monthly distributions and a lower volatility profile than traditional equity-only funds. YLDW uses a bottom-up, research-driven process, targeting companies with strong cash flow, improving fundamentals, and sustainable distributions. The fund generates returns from dividends, interest, option premiums, and potential capital appreciation. Additionally, the fund employs a covered call strategy on most of its equity holdings. This generates premiums that generate additional income, partial downside protection, and enhanced yield in flat markets, while capping upside in strongly rising markets. Investments include dividend-paying stocks, preferred shares, convertibles, corporate bonds, REITs, MLPs, and money market instruments, with up to 40% potentially invested in foreign securities or ADRs. Holdings also include derivatives.
Full YLDW Calculator →Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, and diabetes, as well as vaccine products, such as preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and health management solutions and services, as well as digitally connected identification, traceability, and monitoring products. It serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, and government agencies; managed health care providers, such as health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, and other institutions; and physicians and physician distributors, veterinarians, and animal producers. The company has collaborations with AstraZeneca PLC; Bayer AG; Eisai Co., Ltd.; Ridgeback Biotherapeutics; and Gilead Sciences, Inc. to jointly develop and commercialize long-acting treatments in HIV. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
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