STRASMORE/EXPLORE 2,170 QUERIES

Cash distributions per share, month by month

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 Return of Capital in ETF Distributions.

as of series 59×4read in context →
Cash distributions per share, month by month — 59 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthqyld_per_sharexyld_per_shareryld_per_share
2021-090.19020.370.2519
2021-100.19660.34510.2474
2021-110.22460.36460.2545
2021-120.4994None0.3066
2022-010.2030.48080.2232
2022-020.2020.48350.2316
2022-030.20970.50140.2402
2022-040.20510.49470.2345
2022-050.17850.44110.2113
2022-060.17350.42230.2022
2022-070.18090.43860.2119
2022-080.18130.43380.2069
2022-090.16530.40460.1955
2022-100.16260.40070.1945
2022-110.16480.40520.1986
2022-120.1614None0.1874
2023-010.16960.41010.1956
2023-020.16730.40810.1958
2023-030.1690.39890.176
2023-040.1730.3760.182
2023-050.16820.2840.161
2023-060.17680.32740.1829
2023-070.17970.28720.1797
2023-080.17310.38030.1741
2023-090.17190.33330.1726
2023-100.16680.38350.1616
2023-110.16110.26680.1678
2023-120.1659None0.1667
2024-010.1790.31380.1654
2024-020.17720.30170.1632
2024-030.1780.32190.1674
2024-040.17230.34040.1628
2024-050.16280.28190.1654
2024-060.16860.27640.1608
2024-070.17740.31260.1605
2024-080.17910.40.1608
2024-090.18070.34190.1617
2024-100.18310.3860.1655
2024-110.18040.3710.1658
2024-120.33861.18950.1664
2025-010.18770.3730.1682
2025-020.1650.29070.1627
2025-030.17030.40050.1537
2025-040.15980.37740.1431
2025-050.1650.38930.1481
2025-060.16570.38720.1485
2025-070.16530.31260.1498
2025-080.16770.31630.1506
2025-090.17040.30160.1517
2025-100.17310.39670.1525
2025-110.17280.40030.1518
2025-120.17790.32520.1551
2026-010.17860.35970.1573
2026-020.17710.34120.1584
2026-030.17150.39050.1475
2026-040.17890.35220.1566
2026-050.17850.40120.1568
2026-060.18540.34030.1618
2026-070.17750.40880.1605
Rows × columns
59 × 4
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
Some fields are partly empty — see the columns below
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 Cash distributions per share, month by month, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month date 2021-09 to 2026-07
qyld_per_share number 0.1598 to 0.4994
xyld_per_share number 0.2668 to 1.1895 56 of 59 rows populated
ryld_per_share number 0.1431 to 0.3066

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
    formatDateTime(toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date), '%Y-%m') AS month,
    round(sumIf(cash_amount, ticker = 'QYLD'), 4)             AS qyld_per_share,
    round(sumIf(cash_amount, ticker = 'XYLD'), 4)             AS xyld_per_share,
    round(sumIf(cash_amount, ticker = 'RYLD'), 4)             AS ryld_per_share
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        toFloat64(max(cash_amount)) AS cash_amount
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('QYLD', 'XYLD', 'RYLD')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2021-09-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date <  toDate('2026-08-01')
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
GROUP BY toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date)
ORDER BY toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date)

Run your own version of this

The same 22 years of US equities and 12 years of options data are queryable in SQL or plain English. A free account runs 100 queries a day and takes no card.

More from this analysisReturn of Capital in ETF Distributions
Share price indexed to 100, three covered call ETFs, monthly series 59×4 Trailing year distribution rate, price change, and approximate total return ranking 7×4 QYLD by calendar year: cash paid, average price, implied rate table 5×5 Short-term Treasury yields by month, the reference for fund borrowing costs series 36×3 Monthly cash per share: an option income fund and a bond fund series 24×3 Monthly cost of a near-the-money call, as a percent of share price series 18×3 See all 2,170 queries →