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Trailing twelve month distribution yields: broad index, equal weight, dividend screens, sector funds

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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Trailing twelve month distribution yields: broad index, equal weight, dividend screens, sector funds — 9 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickersegmentpricettm_distributions_usdpaymentstrailing_yield_pct
SPYbroad index tracker766.957.52540.98
RSPequal weight S&P 500221.913.20541.44
VYMdividend screen165.113.6342.2
SCHDdividend screen35.21.04842.98
SPYDdividend screen50.392.03144.03
XLUsector fund42.821.47943.45
XLPsector fund86.052.19742.55
XLREsector fund45.071.40543.12
XLKsector fund183.580.97240.53
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9 × 6
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No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Column definitions for Trailing twelve month distribution yields: broad index, equal weight, dividend screens, sector funds, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 9 distinct values (RSP, SCHD, SPY…)
segment text 4 distinct values
price number 35.2 to 766.95 US dollars
ttm_distributions_usd number 0.972 to 7.525 US dollars
payments number every row is 4
trailing_yield_pct number 0.53 to 4.03 percent

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.

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WITH px AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           argMax(close, window_start) AS price
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'RSP', 'VYM', 'SCHD', 'SPYD', 'XLU', 'XLP', 'XLRE', 'XLK')
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker
),
dv AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           sum(cash_amount) AS ttm_distributions,
           count() AS payments
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'RSP', 'VYM', 'SCHD', 'SPYD', 'XLU', 'XLP', 'XLRE', 'XLK')
      AND ex_dividend_date > today() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND cash_amount > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT px.ticker AS ticker,
       multiIf(px.ticker = 'SPY', 'broad index tracker',
               px.ticker = 'RSP', 'equal weight S&P 500',
               px.ticker IN ('VYM', 'SCHD', 'SPYD'), 'dividend screen',
               'sector fund') AS segment,
       round(px.price, 2) AS price,
       round(dv.ttm_distributions, 3) AS ttm_distributions_usd,
       dv.payments AS payments,
       round(dv.ttm_distributions / px.price * 100, 2) AS trailing_yield_pct
FROM px
INNER JOIN dv ON px.ticker = dv.ticker
ORDER BY multiIf(px.ticker = 'SPY', 1,
                 px.ticker = 'RSP', 2,
                 px.ticker = 'VYM', 3,
                 px.ticker = 'SCHD', 4,
                 px.ticker = 'SPYD', 5,
                 px.ticker = 'XLU', 6,
                 px.ticker = 'XLP', 7,
                 px.ticker = 'XLRE', 8,
                 9)

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