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Monthly payers yielding above 12% - the price move and the payment move behind the number

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.

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Monthly payers yielding above 12% - the price move and the payment move behind the number — 11 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerannual_yield_pctprice_change_12m_pctpayment_change_12m_pctavg_daily_traded_musd
EARN21.6-24.301.6
PSEC18.1-19.9-22.27.9
ORC17.92-5.4-16.726.1
ARR17.627.9047.3
CION16.35-31.5-72.23.5
SAR16.31-27.602.2
DX15.594.8056.2
HRZN14.84-29.3-45.52.8
AGNC13.211.60167
PFLT13.02-27.6-226.8
PNNT12.89-48.3-501.8
Rows × columns
11 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Monthly payers yielding above 12% - the price move and the payment move behind the number, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 11 distinct values (AGNC, ARR, CION…)
annual_yield_pct number 12.89 to 21.6 percent
price_change_12m_pct number -48.3 to 11.6 percent
payment_change_12m_pct number -72.2 to 0 percent
avg_daily_traded_musd number 1.6 to 167

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 monthly AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           argMax(cash_amount, ex_dividend_date) AS latest_payment,
           argMin(cash_amount, ex_dividend_date) AS oldest_payment
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date > today() - 400
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
      AND ticker NOT IN ('KORU','SOXL','SOXS','TQQQ','SQQQ','NVDL','NVDS','NVD','TSLL','TSLQ','TSLZ','SPXL','SPXS','UPRO','SPXU','LABU','LABD','FAS','FAZ','TNA','TZA','YINN','YANG','UDOW','SDOW','BOIL','KOLD','UCO','SCO','USD','SSO','SDS','QLD','QID','ERX','ERY','DRN','DRV','CURE','SOXY','MUU','SNXX','UVXY','SVXY','UVIX','SVIX','BULZ','WEBL','WEBS','DPST','DRIP','GUSH','AGQ','ZSL','BITX','ETHU','MSTX','MSTU','CONL','DUST','JNUG','JDST','NUGT')
      AND ticker NOT IN (SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
                         WHERE execution_date BETWEEN today() - 400 AND today())
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING countIf(ex_dividend_date > today() - 365) BETWEEN 10 AND 14
       AND argMax(frequency, ex_dividend_date) = 12
       AND oldest_payment > 0
),
filers AS (
    SELECT ticker
    FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING argMax(market_cap, date) > 0
),
tape AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           sum(toFloat64(close) * volume) AS dollar_vol,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM monthly)
      AND (window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 32)
           OR (window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 378) AND window_start < toDateTime(today() - 358)))
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < today()
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
          + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= 570
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
          + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < 960
    GROUP BY ticker, d
),
px AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           avgIf(dollar_vol, d > today() - 32) AS adv_usd,
           argMaxIf(close_px, d, d > today() - 32) AS last_close,
           argMaxIf(close_px, d, d <= today() - 358) AS close_year_ago,
           countIf(d > today() - 32) AS recent_sessions,
           countIf(d <= today() - 358) AS old_sessions
    FROM tape
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING recent_sessions >= 15
       AND old_sessions > 0
       AND adv_usd >= 1000000
       AND last_close > 0
       AND close_year_ago > 0
)
SELECT m.ticker AS ticker,
       round(100 * m.latest_payment * 12 / p.last_close, 2) AS annual_yield_pct,
       round(100 * (p.last_close - p.close_year_ago) / p.close_year_ago, 1) AS price_change_12m_pct,
       round(100 * (m.latest_payment - m.oldest_payment) / m.oldest_payment, 1) AS payment_change_12m_pct,
       round(p.adv_usd / 1e6, 1) AS avg_daily_traded_musd
FROM monthly m
INNER JOIN px p ON p.ticker = m.ticker
INNER JOIN filers f ON f.ticker = m.ticker
WHERE 100 * m.latest_payment * 12 / p.last_close >= 12
ORDER BY annual_yield_pct DESC
LIMIT 25

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