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 2026-09-26, from Monthly Dividend ETFs: Who Actually Pays.
| month | option_income_per_share | bond_fund_per_share |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-01 | 0.1807 | 0.3119 |
| 2024-10-01 | 0.1831 | 0.3073 |
| 2024-11-01 | 0.1804 | 0.3103 |
| 2024-12-01 | 0.3386 | 0.6278 |
| 2025-01-01 | 0.1877 | None |
| 2025-02-01 | 0.165 | 0.3223 |
| 2025-03-01 | 0.1703 | 0.3042 |
| 2025-04-01 | 0.1598 | 0.3252 |
| 2025-05-01 | 0.165 | 0.3212 |
| 2025-06-01 | 0.1657 | 0.323 |
| 2025-07-01 | 0.1653 | 0.3195 |
| 2025-08-01 | 0.1677 | 0.3302 |
| 2025-09-01 | 0.1704 | 0.3269 |
| 2025-10-01 | 0.1731 | 0.3252 |
| 2025-11-01 | 0.1728 | 0.327 |
| 2025-12-01 | 0.1779 | 0.6604 |
| 2026-01-01 | 0.1786 | None |
| 2026-02-01 | 0.1771 | 0.3247 |
| 2026-03-01 | 0.1715 | 0.3164 |
| 2026-04-01 | 0.1789 | 0.3367 |
| 2026-05-01 | 0.1785 | 0.3299 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0.1854 | 0.3315 |
| 2026-07-01 | 0.1775 | 0.3307 |
| 2026-08-01 | 0.1829 | 0.3376 |
- Rows × columns
- 24 × 3
- Period covered
- to
- Computed
- Completeness
- Some fields are partly empty — see the columns below
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
month |
date | 2024-09-01 to 2026-08-01 | |
option_income_per_share |
number | 0.1598 to 0.3386 | |
bond_fund_per_share |
number | 0.3042 to 0.6604 | 22 of 24 rows populated |
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 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
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