2026 cash dividends per share at eight widely held payers

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 2026-08-07, from How to Roll an Option Position: Up and Out.

Rows × columns

8 × 4

Computed

2026-08-07

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-07, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    ticker,
    formatDateTime(max(ex_dividend_date), '%b %e, %Y')         AS latest_ex_label,
    round(toFloat64(argMax(cash_amount, ex_dividend_date)), 2) AS dividend_per_share,
    round(toFloat64(sum(cash_amount)), 2)                      AS dividends_paid_ytd
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        max(cash_amount) AS cash_amount
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'XOM', 'VZ', 'CVX')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= '2026-01-01'
      AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-08-01'
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY dividend_per_share DESC