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Quarterly payers by how many different per-share amounts they paid

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 How Preferred Stock Dividends Work.

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Quarterly payers by how many different per-share amounts they paid — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
amount_patternsecuritiesdeclarations
Same amount every time7878935
2 different amounts4314822
3 different amounts4354903
4 to 5 different amounts8179514
6 or more different amounts154217385
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Quarterly payers by how many different per-share amounts they paid, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
amount_pattern text 5 distinct values
securities number 431 to 1,542
declarations number 4,822 to 17,385

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
SELECT
    multiIf(distinct_amounts = 1,  'Same amount every time',
            distinct_amounts = 2,  '2 different amounts',
            distinct_amounts = 3,  '3 different amounts',
            distinct_amounts <= 5, '4 to 5 different amounts',
                                   '6 or more different amounts') AS amount_pattern,
    count()                                                       AS securities,
    sum(payments)                                                 AS declarations
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        countDistinct(amount) AS distinct_amounts,
        count()               AS payments
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            ex_dividend_date,
            any(cash_amount) AS amount
        FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
        WHERE frequency = 4
          AND cash_amount > 0
          AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - 1095
          AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
        GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
    )
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING payments >= 8
)
GROUP BY amount_pattern
ORDER BY min(distinct_amounts)

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