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 2026-08-15, from What $1,000 a Month in Dividends Takes.

Rows × columns

11 × 3

Computed

2026-08-15

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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Formats

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-15, and the query below is what returned them.

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