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Distributions per year: monthly funds beside quarterly benchmarks

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.

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Distributions per year: monthly funds beside quarterly benchmarks — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerfund_familypayments_per_year
AGGBond and loan12
HYGBond and loan12
PFFREIT, BDC and preferred12
SDIVREIT, BDC and preferred12
SRETREIT, BDC and preferred12
BKLNBond and loan11.7
JEPIDerivative income11.7
JEPQDerivative income11.7
QYLDDerivative income11.7
SCHDQuarterly benchmark4
SPYQuarterly benchmark4
VNQQuarterly benchmark4
Rows × columns
12 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Distributions per year: monthly funds beside quarterly benchmarks, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 12 distinct values (AGG, BKLN, HYG…)
fund_family text 4 distinct values
payments_per_year number 4 to 12

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.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT
    ticker,
    multiIf(
        ticker IN ('AGG', 'HYG', 'BKLN'),   'Bond and loan',
        ticker IN ('QYLD', 'JEPI', 'JEPQ'), 'Derivative income',
        ticker IN ('PFF', 'SRET', 'SDIV'),  'REIT, BDC and preferred',
                                            'Quarterly benchmark'
    )                                             AS fund_family,
    round(countDistinct(ex_dividend_date) / 3, 1) AS payments_per_year
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('AGG', 'HYG', 'BKLN', 'QYLD', 'JEPI', 'JEPQ',
                 'PFF', 'SRET', 'SDIV', 'SPY', 'SCHD', 'VNQ')
  AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - 1095
  AND ex_dividend_date <  today()
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY payments_per_year DESC, ticker

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