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.
| payout_bucket | payment_count | ticker_count | share_of_payments_pct | median_usd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| under $0.125 | 5068 | 2128 | 40.1 | 0.041 |
| $0.125 to $0.25 | 1678 | 945 | 13.3 | 0.174 |
| $0.25 to $1.00 | 2746 | 1373 | 21.7 | 0.461 |
| $1.00 to $5.00 | 1946 | 1002 | 15.4 | 1.75 |
| $5.00 and up | 1204 | 740 | 9.5 | 15 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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.
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.
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