SPY distributions per share and price, both rebased to 100 at 2015
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 S&P 500 Dividend Yield: How It's Measured.
| year | distributions_index_2015_100 | price_index_2015_100 |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | 100 |
| 2016 | 107.9 | 109.6 |
| 2017 | 114.2 | 130.9 |
| 2018 | 121.3 | 122.6 |
| 2019 | 133.6 | 157.8 |
| 2020 | 135.3 | 183.3 |
| 2021 | 136 | 232.9 |
| 2022 | 150.3 | 187.5 |
| 2023 | 157.7 | 233.1 |
| 2024 | 168 | 287.4 |
| 2025 | 173.1 | 334.4 |
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
number | 2,015 to 2,025 | |
distributions_index_2015_100 |
number | 100 to 173.1 | |
price_index_2015_100 |
number | 100 to 334.4 | US dollars |
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
WITH px AS (
SELECT toYear(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS year,
argMax(close, window_start) AS year_end_price
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND toYear(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) BETWEEN 2015 AND 2025
AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
GROUP BY year
),
dv AS (
SELECT toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
sum(cash_amount) AS annual_distributions
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND cash_amount > 0
AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2015-01-01')
AND ex_dividend_date <= toDate('2025-12-31')
GROUP BY year
)
SELECT px.year AS year,
round(100 * dv.annual_distributions / (SELECT annual_distributions FROM dv WHERE year = 2015), 1) AS distributions_index_2015_100,
round(100 * px.year_end_price / (SELECT year_end_price FROM px WHERE year = 2015), 1) AS price_index_2015_100
FROM px
INNER JOIN dv ON px.year = dv.year
ORDER BY year
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