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Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family

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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Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerfund_familytrailing_rate_pct
JEPQDerivative income10.88
QYLDDerivative income10.59
SDIVREIT, BDC and preferred9.03
SRETREIT, BDC and preferred8.12
JEPIDerivative income7.91
HYGBond and loan5.89
BKLNBond and loan5.87
PFFREIT, BDC and preferred5.44
AGGBond and loan4.05
VNQQuarterly benchmark3.52
SCHDQuarterly benchmark3
SPYQuarterly benchmark0.98
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 Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 12 distinct values (AGG, BKLN, HYG…)
fund_family text 4 distinct values
trailing_rate_pct number 0.98 to 10.88 percent

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 
WITH
    ttm AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            sum(amount) AS ttm_cash
        FROM
        (
            SELECT
                ticker,
                ex_dividend_date,
                max(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS amount
            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() - 365
              AND ex_dividend_date <  today()
            GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
        )
        GROUP BY ticker
    ),
    px AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            argMax(toFloat64(close), date) AS last_close
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker IN ('AGG', 'HYG', 'BKLN', 'QYLD', 'JEPI', 'JEPQ',
                         'PFF', 'SRET', 'SDIV', 'SPY', 'SCHD', 'VNQ')
          AND date >= today() - 45
        GROUP BY ticker
    )
SELECT
    px.ticker AS ticker,
    multiIf(
        px.ticker IN ('AGG', 'HYG', 'BKLN'),   'Bond and loan',
        px.ticker IN ('QYLD', 'JEPI', 'JEPQ'), 'Derivative income',
        px.ticker IN ('PFF', 'SRET', 'SDIV'),  'REIT, BDC and preferred',
                                               'Quarterly benchmark'
    )                                              AS fund_family,
    round(100 * ttm.ttm_cash / px.last_close, 2)   AS trailing_rate_pct
FROM px
INNER JOIN ttm ON px.ticker = ttm.ticker
ORDER BY trailing_rate_pct DESC

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