US dividend payers by payout-ratio band: $1B+ market cap, $5+ share price

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 2026-08-22, from Dividend Payout Ratio: How to Calculate It.

Rows × columns

4 × 3

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT multiIf(payout_pct < 30, 'under 30%',
               payout_pct < 60, '30% to 60%',
               payout_pct < 100, '60% to 100%',
               'over 100%') AS payout_band,
       count() AS companies,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(yield_pct, cityHash64(ticker)), 2) AS median_yield_pct
FROM (
    SELECT ticker,
           dividend_yield * price / earnings_per_share * 100 AS payout_pct,
           dividend_yield * 100 AS yield_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
    WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
      AND price >= 5
      AND market_cap >= 1000000000
      AND dividend_yield > 0
      AND earnings_per_share > 0
)
GROUP BY payout_band
ORDER BY min(payout_pct)