Monthly cash per share: an option income fund and a bond fund

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 2026-08-22, from Monthly Dividend ETFs: Who Actually Pays.

Rows × columns

24 × 3

Period covered

2024-08-01 to 2026-07-01

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

Some fields are partly empty — see the columns below

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

JSON · CSV · the SQL below

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH paid AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        max(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS amount
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('QYLD', 'AGG')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= subtractMonths(toStartOfMonth(today()), 24)
      AND ex_dividend_date <  toStartOfMonth(today())
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
SELECT
    toString(toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date)) AS month,
    round(sumIf(amount, ticker = 'QYLD'), 4)   AS option_income_per_share,
    round(sumIf(amount, ticker = 'AGG'), 4)    AS bond_fund_per_share
FROM paid
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY month