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PFF Dividend Calculator
iShares Preferred & Income Securities ETF. Project monthly, quarterly and annual income, DRIP compounding, break-even and a year-by-year table. Runs in your browser; the numbers you enter live in the page URL so you can share or bookmark a result.
Prefilled with a 5.51% reference yield at $29.83 · expense ratio 0.45% · as of 2026-09-15 · StockAnalysis. Edit any field.
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About PFF
PFF is the iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF, the largest U.S. preferred-stock ETF. It tracks an ICE index of exchange-listed preferred and hybrid securities, most of which are issued by banks, insurers and utilities. Distributions are paid monthly and are largely fixed-coupon income.
Type ETF Sector Preferred stock ETF · US Pays monthly Expense ratio 0.45%
How this calculator works
Shares bought is investment ÷ price. The dividend per share per payment is
price × yield ÷ 100 ÷ payments per year (12 for PFF). For every payment the
calculator pays shares × dividend per share; with DRIP on it buys
payment ÷ current price more shares, and any annual contribution is split evenly across
the year's payments and also buys shares. The growth assumptions are converted to a per-payment rate so
that they compound to the annual figure you enter. Break-even is the first month at which the
dividends received so far reach 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the capital contributed to that point,
simulated out to 50 years. Yield on cost is the year's dividends divided by total capital contributed.
FAQ
- How much does PFF pay per share?
- As of 15 September 2026 the reference figures from StockAnalysis were a 5.51% trailing-twelve-month yield at a share price of $29.83, which works out to about $1.64 per share a year, paid monthly (roughly $0.14 per month). ETF distributions change with the income of the underlying holdings, so check the issuer's latest declaration before relying on it.
- How many PFF shares would it take to earn $1,000 a month?
- At the reference yield of 5.51% you would need about 7,301 shares, roughly $217,786 at $29.83 a share, to receive $12,000 a year. Set the initial investment to that amount in the calculator to see the projection. A higher yield needs fewer shares; a lower yield needs more.
- What does the DRIP toggle change?
- With DRIP on, each distribution buys more PFF shares at the then-current price, so the next payment is slightly larger; the projection compounds 12 times a year. With DRIP off the distributions are counted as cash income and the share count only changes through your annual contributions.
- Does the calculator account for PFF's 0.45% expense ratio?
- Not separately. PFF's expense ratio of 0.45% is deducted inside the fund before distributions are paid, so a yield based on actual distributions is already net of it. The price-growth assumption is your own; if you model total return, remember the expense ratio is a drag on it.
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Not financial advice. Reference figures as of 2026-09-15 from StockAnalysis; yields and prices change daily and dividends can be cut. Projections are arithmetic on your assumptions, not forecasts.