Annualised call premium at 0.25 to 0.35 delta, eight liquid names, August 2026
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 2026-09-26, from Covered Call Screener: Build One in SQL.
| symbol | contracts | avg_annual_yield_pct | avg_iv_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | 383 | 36.7 | 63 |
| NVDA | 127 | 23.3 | 37.9 |
| XOM | 100 | 16.9 | 27.2 |
| MSFT | 178 | 16.7 | 27 |
| AAPL | 109 | 15.2 | 24.2 |
| JNJ | 78 | 13.4 | 21.2 |
| KO | 91 | 11.1 | 17.3 |
| SPY | 641 | 7 | 11.1 |
- Rows × columns
- 8 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 8 distinct values (AAPL, AMD, JNJ…) | |
contracts |
number | 78 to 641 | count |
avg_annual_yield_pct |
number | 7 to 36.7 | percent |
avg_iv_pct |
number | 11.1 to 63 | percent |
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
underlying_symbol AS symbol,
count() AS contracts,
round(avg(toFloat64(option_close) / toFloat64(underlying_close)
* 365.0 / days_to_expiry) * 100, 1) AS avg_annual_yield_pct,
round(avg(implied_volatility) * 100, 1) AS avg_iv_pct
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'AMD', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'XOM', 'SPY')
AND date >= '2026-08-01'
AND date < '2026-09-01'
AND iv_converged = 1
AND volume > 0
AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
AND delta BETWEEN 0.25 AND 0.35
AND strike_price > underlying_close
GROUP BY symbol
HAVING contracts >= 20
ORDER BY avg_annual_yield_pct DESC
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