S&P 500 tracker distributions per share, by calendar year (2015-2025)
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-10-04, from What $1,000 a Month in Dividends Takes.
| year | payments | distributions_per_share_usd |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4 | 4.206 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4.539 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4.802 |
| 2018 | 4 | 5.1 |
| 2019 | 4 | 5.618 |
| 2020 | 4 | 5.691 |
| 2021 | 4 | 5.718 |
| 2022 | 4 | 6.321 |
| 2023 | 4 | 6.634 |
| 2024 | 4 | 7.065 |
| 2025 | 4 | 7.281 |
- Rows × columns
- 11 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
number | 2,015 to 2,025 | |
payments |
number | every row is 4 | |
distributions_per_share_usd |
number | 4.206 to 7.281 | US dollars |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
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SELECT toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
count() AS payments,
round(sum(cash_amount), 3) AS distributions_per_share_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND cash_amount > 0
AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2015-01-01')
AND ex_dividend_date <= toDate('2025-12-31')
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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