yield_now
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 2026-09-20, from msft-dividend-2026.
- Rows × columns
- 1 × 7
- Period covered
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
price_date |
date | 2026-09-18 | |
price_date_label |
text | 1 distinct value (Sep 18, 2026) | |
close_price |
number | every row is 493.78 | US dollars |
trailing_12m_dividends |
number | every row is 3.64 | |
trailing_yield_pct |
number | every row is 0.74 | percent |
earnings_per_share |
number | every row is 18.01 | |
payout_ratio_pct |
number | every row is 20.2 | 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.
Run it yourself
This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT
toString(p.day) AS price_date,
concat(formatDateTime(p.day, '%b'), ' ',
toString(toDayOfMonth(p.day)), ', ',
toString(toYear(p.day))) AS price_date_label,
round(p.close, 2) AS close_price,
round(d.trailing_dividends, 2) AS trailing_12m_dividends,
round(d.trailing_dividends / p.close * 100, 2) AS trailing_yield_pct,
round(r.eps, 2) AS earnings_per_share,
round(d.trailing_dividends / r.eps * 100, 1) AS payout_ratio_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
max(toDate(date)) AS day,
argMax(toFloat64(close), date) AS close
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'MSFT'
AND date >= today() - 30
) AS p
CROSS JOIN
(
SELECT sum(toFloat64(dividend)) AS trailing_dividends
FROM
(
SELECT
ex_dividend_date,
any(cash_amount) AS dividend
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker = 'MSFT'
AND ex_dividend_date > today() - 365
AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
GROUP BY ex_dividend_date
)
) AS d
CROSS JOIN
(
SELECT argMax(toFloat64(earnings_per_share), date) AS eps
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
WHERE ticker = 'MSFT'
AND date >= today() - 120
) AS r