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Nasdaq-100 Income ETFs: What $10,000 Turned Into This Year

QQQ vs. QQQI, GPIQ, TDAQ and CAIQ: the returns, the cash, and the tax bill.

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Rico Nasol
Oct 23, 2026

Five Nasdaq-100 funds. $10,000 in each. Same year.

One of them kept about 92 cents of every dollar the index made, once you count the checks. Two of them paid about $1,300 in cash. And the fund that paid less than a thousand finished ahead of both.

I own two of these, so this one’s personal.

I’m Rico. I retired from my executive career in 2023, and this is…

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