Reinvestment events a year: a monthly payer against a quarterly payer

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 2026-08-11, from Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) Explained.

Rows × columns

10 × 3

Computed

2026-08-11

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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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 2026-08-11, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH payouts AS (
    SELECT
        ticker,
        any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('KO', 'O')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= '2016-01-01'
      AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-01-01'
      AND cash_amount > 0
    GROUP BY id, ticker
)
SELECT
    toString(toYear(ex_date)) AS year,
    countIf(ticker = 'O')     AS monthly_payer_lots,
    countIf(ticker = 'KO')    AS quarterly_payer_lots
FROM payouts
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year