EPLTX — MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-23
EPLTX — MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $1.20B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
EPLTX Fund Overview
EPLTX — MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund is a US mutual fund managed by New York Life Investments Funds Trust, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: New York Life Investments Funds Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $1.20B
- 1-year return: 6.7%
- Ticker: EPLTX
- SEC CIK: 0001469192
- SEC series ID: S000026784
- Share class ID: C000180194
EPLTX Investment Objective and Strategy
MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by New York Life Investments Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks current income and capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund generally invests in a diversified portfolio consisting of equity securities of U.S. companies that have a history of attractive dividend yields and positive growth in operating cash flow. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of dividend-paying U.S. companies across all market capitalizations. Generally, U.S. companies are companies organized in the U.S. that trade primarily in U.S. securities markets. The Fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in foreign securities. Generally, foreign securities are issued by companies organized outside the U.S. or that trade primarily in non-U.S. securities markets. Investment Process: Epoch Investment Partners, Inc., the Fund's Subadvisor, invests primarily in companies that generate increasing levels of free cash flow and have managements that allocate it effectively to create shareholder value.
The security selection process focuses on free-cash-flow analytics as opposed to traditional accounting-based metrics. The Subadvisor seeks to identify companies with a consistent, straightforward ability to both generate free cash flow and to intelligently allocate it among internal reinvestment opportunities, acquisitions, dividends, share repurchases and/or debt reduction. The Subadvisor seeks to find and invest in companies that meet its definition of quality-companies that are free cash flow positive or becoming free cash flow positive, that are debt free or deleveraging, and that are led by strong management. The Subadvisor evaluates whether a company has a focus on shareholder yield by analyzing the company's existing cash dividend, the company's share repurchase activities, and the company's debt reduction activities as well as the likelihood of positive changes to each of these criteria, among other factors.
The Subadvisor may sell or reduce a position in a security when it believes its investment objectives have been met or if the investment thesis is failing to materialize. The Subadvisor may also sell or reduce a position in a security if it sees an interruption to the dividend policy, a deterioration in fundamentals or when the security is deemed less attractive relative to another security on a return/risk basis.
EPLTX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 2.27% |
| Bank of America Corp. | 2.25% |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.20% |
| Dell Technologies, Inc. | 2.13% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.02% |
| CVS Health Corp. | 1.94% |
| MetLife, Inc. | 1.87% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 1.84% |
| AbbVie, Inc. | 1.78% |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. | 1.72% |
EPLTX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.8% |
| Other | 2.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.8% |
EPLTX Performance
Total returns for EPLTX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 6.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 9.4% |
EPLTX Risk Information
Risk metrics for EPLTX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 12.6%
EPLTX Costs and Fees
EPLTX costs about $140 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.40%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.40%
- Portfolio turnover: 21%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.69 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
EPLTX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund had net outflows of $22.05M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$6.93M |
| 2026-03 | −$7.98M |
| 2026-02 | −$13.82M |
| 2026-01 | −$7.56M |
| 2025-12 | $40.76M |
| 2025-11 | −$16.86M |
EPLTX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
EPLTX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MainStay Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-25
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-02-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.