dist_by_year
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 2026-10-04, from qqq-vs-spy-for-korean-investors.
| year | qqq_usd | spy_usd | qqq_payout_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1.2533 | 4.539 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1.3014 | 4.8021 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1.4053 | 5.1004 | 4 |
| 2019 | 1.5816 | 5.6184 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1.7365 | 5.691 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1.6968 | 5.7182 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2.1351 | 6.3207 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2.5358 | 6.6338 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2.8465 | 7.065 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2.7948 | 7.2811 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2.2977 | 5.5893 | 3 |
- Rows × columns
- 11 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 11 distinct values (2016, 2017, 2018…) | |
qqq_usd |
number | 1.2533 to 2.8465 | US dollars |
spy_usd |
number | 4.539 to 7.2811 | US dollars |
qqq_payout_count |
number | 3 to 5 | count |
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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WITH payouts AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
id,
any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date,
any(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS amount
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('QQQ', 'SPY')
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2016-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < today()
GROUP BY ticker, id
)
SELECT
toString(toYear(ex_date)) AS year,
round(sumIf(amount, ticker = 'QQQ'), 4) AS qqq_usd,
round(sumIf(amount, ticker = 'SPY'), 4) AS spy_usd,
countIf(ticker = 'QQQ') AS qqq_payout_count
FROM payouts
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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