How many US stocks trade in each price band
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 2026-11-07, from How Much Does One Share of Stock Cost?.
| price_band | stock_count |
|---|---|
| Under $1 | 772 |
| $1 to $5 | 1389 |
| $5 to $20 | 2958 |
| $20 to $50 | 4782 |
| $50 to $100 | 1583 |
| $100 to $500 | 1022 |
| $500 and up | 76 |
- Rows × columns
- 7 × 2
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
price_band |
text | 7 distinct values ($1 to $5, $100 to $500, $20 to $50…) | |
stock_count |
number | 76 to 4,782 | count |
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.
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SELECT
price_band,
count() AS stock_count
FROM
(
SELECT
multiIf(px < 1, 'Under $1',
px < 5, '$1 to $5',
px < 20, '$5 to $20',
px < 50, '$20 to $50',
px < 100, '$50 to $100',
px < 500, '$100 to $500',
'$500 and up') AS price_band,
multiIf(px < 1, 0,
px < 5, 1,
px < 20, 2,
px < 50, 3,
px < 100, 4,
px < 500, 5,
6) AS band_order
FROM
(
SELECT toFloat64(close) AS px
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM (SELECT date FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs WHERE date >= today() - 10 GROUP BY date HAVING count() >= 5000))
AND ifNull(otc, 0) = 0
AND volume > 0
AND close > 0
)
)
GROUP BY price_band, band_order
ORDER BY band_order
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