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 2026-09-26, from Monthly Dividend ETFs: Who Actually Pays.
| ticker | fund_family | payments_per_year |
|---|---|---|
| AGG | Bond and loan | 12 |
| BKLN | Bond and loan | 12 |
| HYG | Bond and loan | 12 |
| PFF | REIT, BDC and preferred | 12 |
| QYLD | Derivative income | 12 |
| SDIV | REIT, BDC and preferred | 12 |
| SRET | REIT, BDC and preferred | 12 |
| JEPI | Derivative income | 11.7 |
| JEPQ | Derivative income | 11.7 |
| VNQ | Quarterly benchmark | 4.3 |
| SCHD | Quarterly benchmark | 4 |
| SPY | Quarterly benchmark | 4 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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.
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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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