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.
| amount_pattern | securities | declarations |
|---|---|---|
| Same amount every time | 787 | 8935 |
| 2 different amounts | 431 | 4822 |
| 3 different amounts | 435 | 4903 |
| 4 to 5 different amounts | 817 | 9514 |
| 6 or more different amounts | 1542 | 17385 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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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