Payout schedules of recurring US dividend payers (trailing 12 months)

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 What Is an Ex-Dividend Date? How It Works.

Rows × columns

6 × 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(frequency = 4, 'Quarterly',
               frequency = 12, 'Monthly',
               frequency = 1, 'Annual',
               frequency = 2, 'Semi-annual',
               frequency = 52, 'Weekly',
               'Other') AS payout_schedule,
       uniqExact(ticker) AS payers,
       round(100.0 * uniqExact(ticker) / sum(uniqExact(ticker)) OVER (), 1) AS pct_of_payers
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE currency = 'USD'
  AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
  AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - INTERVAL 12 MONTH
  AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
GROUP BY payout_schedule
ORDER BY payers DESC