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Cash paid per share and payment count, trailing year

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 Fully Paid Securities Lending Explained.

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Cash paid per share and payment count, trailing year — 8 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerpayment_countcash_per_share
CVX47.05
PEP45.75
JNJ45.24
PG44.29
XOM44.12
MSFT43.64
KO42.08
AAPL41.06
Rows × columns
8 × 3
Computed
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

Column definitions for Cash paid per share and payment count, trailing year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 8 distinct values (AAPL, CVX, JNJ…)
payment_count number every row is 4 count
cash_per_share number 1.06 to 7.05

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
    ticker,
    count()                    AS payment_count,
    round(sum(cash_amount), 2) AS cash_per_share
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        id,
        any(cash_amount) AS cash_amount
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'JNJ', 'KO', 'XOM', 'PG', 'CVX', 'PEP')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - 365
      AND ex_dividend_date <  today()
    GROUP BY ticker, id
)
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY cash_per_share DESC

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