2026 price return, distributions and total return: miners, wrapper and bullion

Name: 2026 price return, distributions and total return: miners, wrapper and bullion
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-10-04
License: https://www.strasmore.com/terms/

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 2026-10-04, from Gold Miner Covered Call ETFs: Yield vs Upside.

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2026 price return, distributions and total return: miners, wrapper and bullion — 4 rows by 5 columns, computed 2026-10-04 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbol	price_return_pct	distributions_pct	total_return_pct	priced_window
GDX	2.4	0	2.4	Jan 2 to Oct 2, 2026
GDXJ	0.4	0	0.4	Jan 2 to Oct 2, 2026
GDXY	-37	34.9	-2	Jan 2 to Oct 2, 2026
GLD	-4.6	0	-4.6	Jan 2 to Oct 2, 2026

Rows × columns: 4 × 5
Computed: 2026-10-04
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for 2026 price return, distributions and total return: miners, wrapper and bullion, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`symbol`	text	4 distinct values (GDX, GDXJ, GDXY…)
`price_return_pct`	number	-37 to 2.4	percent
`distributions_pct`	number	0 to 34.9	percent
`total_return_pct`	number	-4.6 to 2.4	percent
`priced_window`	text	1 distinct value (Jan 2 to Oct 2, 2026)

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 2026-10-04, and the query below is what returned them.

Run it yourself

This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.

WITH
    price_window AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            argMin(toFloat64(close), date) AS first_close,
            argMax(toFloat64(close), date) AS last_close,
            min(date)                      AS from_date,
            max(date)                      AS through_date
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker IN ('GDX', 'GDXJ', 'GDXY', 'GLD')
          AND date >= '2026-01-02'
        GROUP BY ticker
    ),
    cash AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            sum(amount) AS cash_paid
        FROM
        (
            SELECT
                ticker,
                id,
                max(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS amount
            FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
            WHERE ticker IN ('GDX', 'GDXJ', 'GDXY', 'GLD')
              AND ex_dividend_date >= '2026-01-02'
              AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
            GROUP BY ticker, id
        )
        GROUP BY ticker
    )
SELECT
    p.ticker                                                                      AS symbol,
    round((p.last_close / p.first_close - 1) * 100, 1)                            AS price_return_pct,
    round(ifNull(c.cash_paid, 0) / p.first_close * 100, 1)                        AS distributions_pct,
    round(((p.last_close + ifNull(c.cash_paid, 0)) / p.first_close - 1) * 100, 1) AS total_return_pct,
    concat(formatDateTime(p.from_date, '%b %e'), ' to ', formatDateTime(p.through_date, '%b %e, %Y')) AS priced_window
FROM price_window AS p
LEFT JOIN cash AS c ON c.ticker = p.ticker
ORDER BY symbol

SQL to run

WITH
    price_window AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            argMin(toFloat64(close), date) AS first_close,
            argMax(toFloat64(close), date) AS last_close,
            min(date)                      AS from_date,
            max(date)                      AS through_date
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker IN ('GDX', 'GDXJ', 'GDXY', 'GLD')
          AND date >= '2026-01-02'
        GROUP BY ticker
    ),
    cash AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            sum(amount) AS cash_paid
        FROM
        (
            SELECT
                ticker,
                id,
                max(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS amount
            FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
            WHERE ticker IN ('GDX', 'GDXJ', 'GDXY', 'GLD')
              AND ex_dividend_date >= '2026-01-02'
              AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
            GROUP BY ticker, id
        )
        GROUP BY ticker
    )
SELECT
    p.ticker                                                                      AS symbol,
    round((p.last_close / p.first_close - 1) * 100, 1)                            AS price_return_pct,
    round(ifNull(c.cash_paid, 0) / p.first_close * 100, 1)                        AS distributions_pct,
    round(((p.last_close + ifNull(c.cash_paid, 0)) / p.first_close - 1) * 100, 1) AS total_return_pct,
    concat(formatDateTime(p.from_date, '%b %e'), ' to ', formatDateTime(p.through_date, '%b %e, %Y')) AS priced_window
FROM price_window AS p
LEFT JOIN cash AS c ON c.ticker = p.ticker
ORDER BY symbol

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