Dividend as a percent of EPS: large equity REITs against every other US dividend payer

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 REIT Payout Ratio: FFO vs EPS Explained.

Rows × columns

2 × 4

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT multiIf(ticker IN ('O','SPG','PLD','PSA','AVB','EQR','VTR','WELL','KIM','FRT','NNN','MAA','ARE','IRM'),
               'Equity REITs',
               'All other dividend payers') AS category,
       count() AS company_count,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(dividend_yield * price / earnings_per_share) * 100,
                                        cityHash64(ticker)), 1) AS median_eps_payout_pct,
       round(100 * countIf(dividend_yield * price > earnings_per_share) / count(), 1) AS pct_paying_over_earnings
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
  AND price >= 5
  AND market_cap >= 1000000000
  AND dividend_yield > 0
  AND earnings_per_share > 0
GROUP BY category
ORDER BY category