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Twelve months of dividends a short seller owes, per share

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 2026-10-06, from Is a Covered Put Actually Covered?.

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Twelve months of dividends a short seller owes, per share — 8 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerttm_dividends_usdttm_dividend_pct_of_pricepayment_count
PFE1.726.244
F0.64.914
T1.114.584
XOM4.122.534
KO2.12.434
JNJ5.282.084
MSFT3.640.694
AAPL1.060.324
Rows × columns
8 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Twelve months of dividends a short seller owes, per share, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 8 distinct values (AAPL, F, JNJ…)
ttm_dividends_usd number 0.6 to 5.28 US dollars
ttm_dividend_pct_of_price number 0.32 to 6.24 percent
payment_count number every row is 4 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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WITH divs AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        sum(cash_amount) AS ttm_cash,
        count()          AS payments
    FROM
    (
        SELECT DISTINCT
            ticker,
            ex_dividend_date,
            cash_amount
        FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
        WHERE ticker IN ('KO', 'T', 'PFE', 'XOM', 'F', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'JNJ')
          AND ex_dividend_date >= '2025-10-01'
          AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-10-01'
          AND cash_amount > 0
    )
    GROUP BY ticker
),
px AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        argMax(toFloat64(close), date) AS last_close
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('KO', 'T', 'PFE', 'XOM', 'F', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'JNJ')
      AND date >= '2026-09-01'
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT
    divs.ticker                                   AS ticker,
    round(divs.ttm_cash, 2)                       AS ttm_dividends_usd,
    round(divs.ttm_cash / px.last_close * 100, 2) AS ttm_dividend_pct_of_price,
    divs.payments                                 AS payment_count
FROM divs
INNER JOIN px ON px.ticker = divs.ticker
ORDER BY ttm_dividend_pct_of_price DESC
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