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Dividend yield, buyback yield and total shareholder yield

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.

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Dividend yield, buyback yield and total shareholder yield — 4 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerdividend_yield_pctbuyback_yield_pctshareholder_yield_pct
PEP4.160.294.45
HD2.65-0.22.45
KO2.40.052.44
CSCO1.360.351.71
Rows × columns
4 × 4
Computed
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No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Dividend yield, buyback yield and total shareholder yield, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 4 distinct values (CSCO, HD, KO…)
dividend_yield_pct number 1.36 to 4.16 percent
buyback_yield_pct number -0.2 to 0.35 percent
shareholder_yield_pct number 1.71 to 4.45 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    d.ticker                                                            AS ticker,
    round(100 * d.ttm_dividend / p.price, 2)                            AS dividend_yield_pct,
    round(100 * (s.shares_prior - s.shares_recent) / s.shares_prior, 2) AS buyback_yield_pct,
    round(100 * d.ttm_dividend / p.price
        + 100 * (s.shares_prior - s.shares_recent) / s.shares_prior, 2) AS shareholder_yield_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toFloat64(sum(amount)) AS ttm_dividend
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            id,
            any(cash_amount) AS amount
        FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
        WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'CSCO', 'HD', 'JNJ')
          AND frequency > 0
          AND ex_dividend_date > today() - 365
          AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
        GROUP BY ticker, id
    )
    GROUP BY ticker
) AS d
INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) AS price
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'CSCO', 'HD', 'JNJ')
      AND date > today() - 30
    GROUP BY ticker
) AS p ON p.ticker = d.ticker
INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT
        arrayJoin(tickers) AS ticker,
        argMaxIf(toFloat64(diluted_shares_outstanding), period_end, period_end > today() - 200)  AS shares_recent,
        argMaxIf(toFloat64(diluted_shares_outstanding), period_end, period_end <= today() - 365) AS shares_prior
    FROM global_markets.stocks_income_statements
    WHERE timeframe = 'quarterly'
      AND diluted_shares_outstanding > 0
      AND period_end > today() - 800
      AND hasAny(tickers, ['AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'CSCO', 'HD', 'JNJ'])
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'CSCO', 'HD', 'JNJ')
       AND countIf(period_end > today() - 200) > 0
       AND countIf(period_end <= today() - 365) > 0
) AS s ON s.ticker = d.ticker
ORDER BY shareholder_yield_pct DESC

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