Share of a full year's dividend cash arriving in each month: one monthly payer and one quarterly payer, 2025 pay dates

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 2026-07-31, from Monthly Dividend Stocks Explained.

Rows × columns

12 × 4

Period covered

2025-01 to 2025-12

Computed

2026-07-31

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

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 2026-07-31, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH base AS (
    SELECT toStartOfMonth(pay_date) AS m,
           ifNull(sumIf(cash_amount, ticker = 'O'), 0) AS o_cash,
           ifNull(sumIf(cash_amount, ticker = 'KO'), 0) AS ko_cash
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('O', 'KO')
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
      AND pay_date >= '2025-01-01'
      AND pay_date <= '2025-12-31'
    GROUP BY m
)
SELECT formatDateTime(m, '%Y-%m') AS month,
       formatDateTimeInJodaSyntax(m, 'MMMM') AS month_label,
       round(100 * o_cash / sum(o_cash) OVER (), 1) AS monthly_payer_pct_of_year,
       round(100 * ko_cash / sum(ko_cash) OVER (), 1) AS quarterly_payer_pct_of_year
FROM base
ORDER BY m