Recurring cash payments per ticker over the trailing year - where the monthly band sits
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 Stocks: The Full List.
| bucket | tickers | labelled_monthly | company_filings |
|---|---|---|---|
| One a year | 3984 | 93 | 29 |
| Two a year | 2428 | 38 | 47 |
| Three to six a year | 4431 | 174 | 1474 |
| Seven to nine a year | 153 | 149 | 5 |
| Ten to fourteen a year | 1569 | 1562 | 34 |
| Fifteen to thirty-nine a year | 72 | 0 | 0 |
| Forty or more a year | 113 | 0 | 0 |
- Rows × columns
- 7 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
bucket |
text | 7 distinct values | |
tickers |
number | 72 to 4,431 | |
labelled_monthly |
number | 0 to 1,562 | |
company_filings |
number | 0 to 1,474 |
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 payers AS (
SELECT ticker,
count() AS payments_12m,
argMax(frequency, ex_dividend_date) AS freq_flag
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date > today() - 365
AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
AND cash_amount > 0
AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY ticker
),
filers AS (
SELECT ticker
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING argMax(market_cap, date) > 0
)
SELECT multiIf(payments_12m = 1, 'One a year',
payments_12m = 2, 'Two a year',
payments_12m BETWEEN 3 AND 6, 'Three to six a year',
payments_12m BETWEEN 7 AND 9, 'Seven to nine a year',
payments_12m BETWEEN 10 AND 14, 'Ten to fourteen a year',
payments_12m BETWEEN 15 AND 39, 'Fifteen to thirty-nine a year',
'Forty or more a year') AS bucket,
count() AS tickers,
countIf(freq_flag = 12) AS labelled_monthly,
countIf(ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM filers)) AS company_filings
FROM payers
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY min(payments_12m)
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