Latest dividend yield: index heavyweights beside dividend-screen staples

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 SCHD vs VOO: Why the Dividend Yields Differ.

Rows × columns

12 × 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 ticker,
       any(if(ticker IN ('NVDA', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'AMZN', 'META', 'GOOGL'),
              'S&P 500 top weights', 'Dividend screen staples')) AS cohort,
       round(argMax(ifNull(dividend_yield, 0), date) * 100, 2) AS dividend_yield_pct,
       round(argMax(ifNull(dividend_yield, 0) * price, date), 2) AS annual_dividend_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
WHERE ticker IN ('NVDA', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'AMZN', 'META', 'GOOGL',
                 'KO', 'PEP', 'CVX', 'MRK', 'ABBV', 'VZ')
  AND date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY dividend_yield_pct DESC