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Trailing yield and payout ratio at the latest stored Microsoft close

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 2026-11-01, from MSFT Dividend 2026: Dates, Raise, Per Share.

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price date
2026-10-30
price date label
Oct 30, 2026
close price
521.91
trailing 12m dividends
3.64
trailing yield pct
0.7
earnings per share
19.21
payout ratio pct
18.9
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
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Trailing yield and payout ratio at the latest stored Microsoft close, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
price_date date 2026-10-30
price_date_label text 1 distinct value (Oct 30, 2026)
close_price number every row is 521.91 US dollars
trailing_12m_dividends number every row is 3.64
trailing_yield_pct number every row is 0.7 percent
earnings_per_share number every row is 19.21
payout_ratio_pct number every row is 18.9 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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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
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