Distribution cadence: index and income funds, twelve months to June 30, 2026

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 2026-08-01, from Selling Mutual Funds at a Loss: How Basis Works.

Rows × columns

9 × 4

Computed

2026-08-01

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 2026-08-01, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT ticker,
       count() AS distributions,
       round((max(ex_dividend_date) - min(ex_dividend_date)) / (count() - 1), 0) AS avg_days_between,
       round(sum(cash_amount), 3) AS total_per_share_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('JEPI', 'QYLD', 'BND', 'AGG', 'SCHD', 'VNQ', 'VTI', 'VOO', 'SPY')
  AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2025-07-01')
  AND ex_dividend_date <= toDate('2026-06-30')
  AND cash_amount > 0
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING count() > 1
ORDER BY avg_days_between ASC