Performance analysis of PMAY (Innovator U.S. Equity Power Buffer ETF - May)
Annual Return
Over the past 3 years, PMAY has had an average annual return of +12.42%, underperforming the benchmark SPY, which returned +22.77% annual.
Over the past 5 years, PMAY has had an average annual return of +7.28%, underperforming the benchmark SPY, which returned +14.05% annual.
Since May 1, 2020, PMAY has had an average annual return of +8.43%, underperforming the benchmark SPY, which returned +19.26% annual.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +4.71% | +10.26% | +14.08% | +12.05% | -8.09% | +7.80% | +11.97% |
Monthly Return
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annually Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +0.56% | +0.30% | +0.03% | +1.50% | +2.13% | +0.12% | +4.71% | ||||||
| 2025 | +1.12% | +0.36% | -1.76% | +0.20% | +3.09% | +2.18% | +0.80% | +1.01% | +1.09% | +0.35% | +0.56% | +0.86% | +10.26% |
| 2024 | +1.08% | +1.42% | +0.64% | +0.55% | +2.78% | +1.65% | +0.79% | +1.49% | +1.01% | -0.02% | +2% | -0.09% | +14.08% |
| 2023 | +2.52% | -0.93% | +1.01% | -0.41% | +0.52% | +3.47% | +1.14% | -0.23% | -1.99% | -1.25% | +5.58% | +2.27% | +12.05% |
| 2022 | -0.82% | -1.13% | +2.27% | -6.23% | +0.14% | -5.11% | +5.45% | -2.01% | -5.02% | +4.70% | +2.96% | -2.77% | -8.09% |
| 2021 | -0.21% | +1.12% | +0.77% | +0.39% | +0.66% | +1.03% | +0.54% | +1.33% | -1.58% | +2.50% | -0.41% | +1.46% | +7.80% |
| 2020 | +4.46% | +0.46% | +2.05% | +1.91% | -0.72% | -1.01% | +3.80% | +0.57% | +11.97% |
Drawdown analysis of PMAY (Innovator U.S. Equity Power Buffer ETF - May)
The maximum drawdown for the PMAY was -13.05%, occurring on Sep 30, 2022. Recovery took 294 trading sessions.
Since May 1, 2020 PMAY has experienced the following drawdowns:
- 10% or more: 1 time
| Depth | Start | To Bottom | Bottom | To Recover | End | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -13.05% | Mar 29, 2022 | 127 | Sep 30, 2022 | 294 | Dec 1, 2023 | 421 |
| -9.42% | Feb 19, 2025 | 34 | Apr 8, 2025 | 23 | May 12, 2025 | 57 |
| -4.40% | Jan 12, 2022 | 37 | Mar 8, 2022 | 14 | Mar 28, 2022 | 51 |
| -3.80% | Jul 16, 2024 | 14 | Aug 5, 2024 | 9 | Aug 16, 2024 | 23 |
| -3.69% | Jun 8, 2020 | 3 | Jun 11, 2020 | 25 | Jul 17, 2020 | 28 |
| -2.68% | Oct 13, 2020 | 13 | Oct 30, 2020 | 5 | Nov 6, 2020 | 18 |
| -2.20% | May 7, 2021 | 3 | May 12, 2021 | 11 | May 27, 2021 | 14 |
| -2.18% | Aug 28, 2020 | 18 | Sep 24, 2020 | 11 | Oct 9, 2020 | 29 |
| -2.02% | May 11, 2020 | 2 | May 13, 2020 | 3 | May 18, 2020 | 5 |
| -1.86% | Sep 3, 2021 | 20 | Oct 4, 2021 | 11 | Oct 19, 2021 | 31 |
| -1.78% | Aug 30, 2024 | 4 | Sep 6, 2024 | 5 | Sep 13, 2024 | 9 |
| -1.65% | Jul 9, 2021 | 6 | Jul 19, 2021 | 11 | Aug 3, 2021 | 17 |
| -1.60% | Nov 5, 2021 | 17 | Dec 1, 2021 | 16 | Dec 23, 2021 | 33 |
| -1.58% | Feb 25, 2026 | 22 | Mar 27, 2026 | 5 | Apr 6, 2026 | 27 |
| -1.23% | Jan 21, 2021 | 4 | Jan 27, 2021 | 6 | Feb 4, 2021 | 10 |
| -1.15% | Oct 28, 2025 | 17 | Nov 20, 2025 | 4 | Nov 26, 2025 | 21 |
| -1.11% | May 19, 2025 | 4 | May 23, 2025 | 5 | Jun 2, 2025 | 9 |
| -1.00% | Dec 11, 2024 | 6 | Dec 19, 2024 | 3 | Dec 24, 2024 | 9 |
| -0.87% | Aug 13, 2021 | 4 | Aug 19, 2021 | 4 | Aug 25, 2021 | 8 |
| -0.79% | Jun 15, 2021 | 3 | Jun 18, 2021 | 2 | Jun 22, 2021 | 5 |
| -0.75% | May 14, 2026 | 3 | May 19, 2026 | 3 | May 22, 2026 | 6 |
| -0.73% | Dec 27, 2023 | 5 | Jan 4, 2024 | 2 | Jan 8, 2024 | 7 |
| -0.68% | Jul 21, 2020 | 3 | Jul 24, 2020 | 6 | Aug 3, 2020 | 9 |
| -0.64% | Oct 6, 2025 | 4 | Oct 10, 2025 | 6 | Oct 20, 2025 | 10 |
| -0.64% | Jul 28, 2025 | 4 | Aug 1, 2025 | 5 | Aug 8, 2025 | 9 |