Yield distribution across liquid monthly payers, with each band's median 12-month price change
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 | payers | median_yield_pct | median_price_change_12m_pct | company_filings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 3% | 66 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 1 |
| From 3% to 5% | 279 | 4.21 | -1.1 | 3 |
| From 5% to 8% | 234 | 6.28 | -1.2 | 8 |
| From 8% to 12% | 98 | 9.42 | -1.5 | 6 |
| Above 12% | 71 | 14.26 | -8.2 | 11 |
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
bucket |
text | 5 distinct values (Above 12%, From 3% to 5%, From 5% to 8%…) | |
payers |
number | 66 to 279 | |
median_yield_pct |
number | 2.2 to 14.26 | percent |
median_price_change_12m_pct |
number | -8.2 to 0.8 | percent |
company_filings |
number | 1 to 11 |
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
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')
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 count() BETWEEN 10 AND 14
AND argMax(frequency, ex_dividend_date) = 12
),
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
),
named AS (
SELECT m.ticker AS ticker,
100 * m.latest_payment * 12 / p.last_close AS yld,
100 * (p.last_close - p.close_year_ago) / p.close_year_ago AS price_change,
m.ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM filers) AS is_filer
FROM monthly m
INNER JOIN px p ON p.ticker = m.ticker
)
SELECT multiIf(yld < 3, 'Under 3%',
yld < 5, 'From 3% to 5%',
yld < 8, 'From 5% to 8%',
yld < 12, 'From 8% to 12%',
'Above 12%') AS bucket,
count() AS payers,
round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(yld, cityHash64(ticker)), 2) AS median_yield_pct,
round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(price_change, cityHash64(ticker)), 1) AS median_price_change_12m_pct,
countIf(is_filer) AS company_filings
FROM named
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY median_yield_pct
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