Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family

Name: Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-09-26
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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.

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Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed 2026-09-26 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
ticker	fund_family	trailing_rate_pct
QYLD	Derivative income	11.49
JEPQ	Derivative income	11.04
SDIV	REIT, BDC and preferred	9.45
SRET	REIT, BDC and preferred	9.16
JEPI	Derivative income	8.08
BKLN	Bond and loan	6.38
HYG	Bond and loan	6.09
PFF	REIT, BDC and preferred	5.51
AGG	Bond and loan	4.16
VNQ	Quarterly benchmark	3.74
SCHD	Quarterly benchmark	3.17
SPY	Quarterly benchmark	0.98

Rows × columns: 12 × 3
Computed: 2026-09-26
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund family, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`ticker`	text	12 distinct values (AGG, BKLN, HYG…)
`fund_family`	text	4 distinct values
`trailing_rate_pct`	number	0.98 to 11.49	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 2026-09-26, and the query below is what returned them.

Run it yourself

This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.

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

SQL to run

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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