Two years of regular distributions: how many, and how variable

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 SEC 30-Day Yield vs Distribution Yield.

Rows × columns

6 × 3

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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Formats

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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
    fund_ticker                                 AS fund,
    count()                                     AS payment_count,
    round(100 * ((max(cash) / min(cash)) - 1), 1) AS largest_vs_smallest_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        any(ticker)                 AS fund_ticker,
        any(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS cash
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'SCHD', 'VYM', 'QQQ', 'TLT', 'JEPI')
      AND ex_dividend_date > today() - 730
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND toUInt16(frequency) > 0
    GROUP BY id
)
GROUP BY fund_ticker
HAVING count() >= 4
ORDER BY largest_vs_smallest_pct DESC, fund ASC