Using a covered call strategy to deliver income gives us more freedom to select companies held by our ETFs based on criteria other than dividends. Therefore, if a holding in a particular Harvest Equity Income ETF does not pay a dividend, it does not necessarily mean it is excluded from a portfolio. A dividend requirement in the underlying holdings is not a necessity across all Harvest Equity Income ETFs. There are select holdings that do not pay dividends included in select ETFs because they meet the objectives of opportunity for capital appreciation or diversification.
In HDIF, for example, a portion of the underlying individual stocks currently (ie. the stocks held in all of the underlying ETFs) do not pay dividends. They are predominately held in HTA, given the growth-sector bias within that ETF, however select positions in other ETFs also do not pay dividends.