Monthly payers in the dividend record, by completed calendar year
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 2026-10-04, from Monthly Dividend Stocks: The Full List.
| year | monthly_payers | monthly_share_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 7 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 69 | 2.32 |
| 2008 | 40 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 47 | 1.32 |
| 2010 | 61 | 1.53 |
| 2011 | 60 | 1.44 |
| 2012 | 135 | 1.88 |
| 2013 | 730 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | 831 | 11.12 |
| 2015 | 857 | 11.5 |
| 2016 | 839 | 10.92 |
| 2017 | 869 | 10.98 |
| 2018 | 934 | 8.76 |
| 2019 | 983 | 8.94 |
| 2020 | 971 | 9.44 |
| 2021 | 1004 | 9.49 |
| 2022 | 1094 | 9.88 |
| 2023 | 1169 | 10.44 |
| 2024 | 1299 | 11.35 |
| 2025 | 1481 | 12.47 |
- Rows × columns
- 21 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
number | 2,005 to 2,025 | |
monthly_payers |
number | 0 to 1,481 | |
monthly_share_pct |
number | 0 to 12.47 | 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.
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WITH per_year AS (
SELECT ticker,
toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
count(DISTINCT ex_dividend_date) AS payments
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE distribution_type = 'recurring'
AND cash_amount > 0
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2005-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < toStartOfYear(today())
GROUP BY ticker, year
)
SELECT year,
countIf(payments BETWEEN 10 AND 14) AS monthly_payers,
round(100 * countIf(payments BETWEEN 10 AND 14) / count(), 2) AS monthly_share_pct
FROM per_year
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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