Payout ratio and dividend yield: familiar large US payers, latest snapshot

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

8 × 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 ticker,
       round(argMax(dividend_yield * price / earnings_per_share, date) * 100, 1) AS payout_ratio_pct,
       round(argMax(dividend_yield, date) * 100, 2) AS dividend_yield_pct
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
  AND ticker IN ('KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'CVX', 'VZ', 'HD')
  AND dividend_yield > 0
  AND earnings_per_share > 0
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY payout_ratio_pct DESC