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What one cent is worth, as a share of the closing price

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 2026-08-13, from Half-Penny Tick Sizes Under Rule 612.

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What one cent is worth, as a share of the closing price — 8 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolclosing_priceone_cent_in_bps
F$14.137.08
PFE$25.813.87
KO$86.831.15
NVDA$219.220.46
AAPL$3110.32
MSFT$487.460.21
SPY$769.790.13
GS$1060.380.09
Rows × columns
8 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for What one cent is worth, as a share of the closing price, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 8 distinct values (AAPL, F, GS…)
closing_price text 8 distinct values ($1060.38, $14.13, $219.22…)
one_cent_in_bps number 0.09 to 7.08

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                                                  AS symbol,
    concat('$', toString(round(toFloat64(max(close)), 2)))  AS closing_price,
    round(100 / toFloat64(max(close)), 2)                   AS one_cent_in_bps
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE date = '2026-08-05'
  AND ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO', 'PFE', 'F', 'GS')
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY one_cent_in_bps DESC

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