Weekly House Score — Issue #1

About this sample

This is Issue #1 exactly as it was published for the week of October 19, 2026. Dates and figures are from that week and are not updated. All dates and amounts below were verified from public sources on October 17, 2026. Current issues go to subscribers.

Score changes

None. No tracked ticker's grade moved — the card data is the October snapshot until the EDGAR engine starts refreshing it. This section goes live in earnest once the rebuild lands.

Coverage watch

MAIN (Main Street Capital) — regular monthly dividend held at $0.265/share for November and December, per the company's own dividend schedule. Q2 distributable net investment income was $0.97/share, and management guided Q3 DNII to at least $0.97/share — the regular dividend remains covered by DNII on those figures. Next earnings (estimated): November 5, 2026.

O (Realty Income) — 676th consecutive monthly dividend declared October 13: $0.2715/share, payable November 13, 2026 to holders of record October 30, 2026.

Ex-dividend week ahead

Oct 19–25: a quiet week — no tracked monthly payer goes ex-dividend.

The cluster lands right after, Oct 30 – Nov 6:

O — record/ex date Fri Oct 30, $0.2715, payable Nov 13

JEPI — ex Mon Nov 2, amount not yet announced (Oct was $0.3413, ex Oct 1)

JEPQ — ex Mon Nov 2, amount not yet announced (Oct was $0.56687, ex Oct 1)

MAIN — ex Fri Nov 6, $0.265 regular, payable Nov 13

Anyone building a position in these names for the November income cycle needs to own them before those dates — after them, the next capture is a month away.

Trap radar

JEPQ / JEPI headline yield vs current run-rate. JEPQ's October distribution was $0.56687 — down 16.9% from September's $0.68255 (which followed August's record $0.70497). JEPI's October distribution was $0.3413, down ~8% from September's $0.3714. Trailing-12-month yields (~11.7% JEPQ, ~8.0% JEPI) are backward-looking averages; the current monthly run-rate is lower. Not a quality verdict — covered-call distributions move with options premiums — but anyone annualizing the trailing yield is overstating what these funds are paying right now.

One concept, explained — distribution variability

Covered-call ETFs (JEPI, JEPQ) don't pay a declared dividend the way O or MAIN do. Each month's distribution is largely the options premium collected that month, so it rises and falls with volatility and market conditions. A falling monthly distribution is not automatically a "cut," and a record month is not a raise — the series has to be read as a range, not a promise. That is why the House scores these funds on distribution range and consistency, not on a single month's annualized yield.

Sources checked

Realty Income 676th monthly dividend declaration (PR Newswire, Oct 13, 2026): $0.2715/share, record Oct 30, 2026, payable Nov 13, 2026.

MAIN dividend history (StockAnalysis / MarketBeat calendars): ex Nov 6, 2026, $0.265, payable Nov 13, 2026; Oct 8 ex-date $0.265 paid Oct 15; next earnings est. Nov 5, 2026. Ad-hoc-news summary of MAIN's schedule: regular $0.265 also listed for December; Q2 DNII $0.97, Q3 guided at least $0.97.

JEPQ (DividendStacker / TopDividendETFs): Oct 1, 2026 ex-date $0.56687; Sep $0.68255; Aug $0.70497; next ex-date Nov 2, 2026, amount unannounced.

JEPI (DividendInvestor / MyPlanIQ): Oct 1, 2026 ex-date $0.3413 (paid Oct 5); Sep 1 $0.3714; pattern is first business day of the month, so Nov 2, 2026 is the expected next ex-date (amount unannounced).

Educational tool only

Not investment advice, and no score is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

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