Share of net income already committed to the dividend

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 2026-08-08, from Dividends vs Buybacks: Shareholder Yield.

Rows × columns

8 × 2

Computed

2026-08-08

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

SELECT
    ticker,
    round(100 * sum(dividends_q) / sum(net_income_q), 1) AS payout_ratio_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        arrayJoin(tickers) AS ticker,
        period_end,
        toFloat64(abs(argMax(dividends, (filing_date, period_end)))) AS dividends_q,
        toFloat64(argMax(net_income, (filing_date, period_end)))     AS net_income_q
    FROM global_markets.stocks_cash_flow_statements
    WHERE timeframe = 'quarterly'
      AND period_end > today() - 400
      AND hasAny(tickers, ['AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'CSCO', 'HD', 'JNJ'])
    GROUP BY ticker, period_end
    HAVING ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'CSCO', 'HD', 'JNJ')
)
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING sum(net_income_q) > 0
ORDER BY payout_ratio_pct DESC