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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.

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SPY distributions per share and price, both rebased to 100 at 2015 — 11 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yeardistributions_index_2015_100price_index_2015_100
2015100100
2016107.9109.6
2017114.2130.9
2018121.3122.6
2019133.6157.8
2020135.3183.3
2021136232.9
2022150.3187.5
2023157.7233.1
2024168287.4
2025173.1334.4
Rows × columns
11 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for SPY distributions per share and price, both rebased to 100 at 2015, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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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