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One off cash distributions by size: payments, tickers and median amount since 2021

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 2026-08-04, from How Stock Splits Affect Your Options.

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One off cash distributions by size: payments, tickers and median amount since 2021 — 5 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
payout_bucketpayment_countticker_countshare_of_payments_pctmedian_usd
under $0.1255068212840.10.041
$0.125 to $0.25167894513.30.174
$0.25 to $1.002746137321.70.461
$1.00 to $5.001946100215.41.75
$5.00 and up12047409.515
Rows × columns
5 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for One off cash distributions by size: payments, tickers and median amount since 2021, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
payout_bucket text 5 distinct values
payment_count number 1,204 to 5,068 count
ticker_count number 740 to 2,128 count
share_of_payments_pct number 9.5 to 40.1 percent
median_usd number 0.041 to 15 US dollars

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 multiIf(toFloat64(cash_amount) >= 5, '$5.00 and up',
               toFloat64(cash_amount) >= 1, '$1.00 to $5.00',
               toFloat64(cash_amount) >= 0.25, '$0.25 to $1.00',
               toFloat64(cash_amount) >= 0.125, '$0.125 to $0.25',
               'under $0.125') AS payout_bucket,
       count() AS payment_count,
       uniqExact(ticker) AS ticker_count,
       round(100 * count() / (
           SELECT count()
           FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
           WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2021-01-01')
             AND ex_dividend_date < toDate('2026-08-01')
             AND distribution_type != 'recurring'
             AND toFloat64(cash_amount) > 0
       ), 1) AS share_of_payments_pct,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(cash_amount), cityHash64(ticker)), 3) AS median_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2021-01-01')
  AND ex_dividend_date < toDate('2026-08-01')
  AND distribution_type != 'recurring'
  AND toFloat64(cash_amount) > 0
GROUP BY payout_bucket
ORDER BY median_usd

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