What one cent is worth, by share price band

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 2026-08-07, from The Sub-Penny Rule and Price Improvement.

Rows × columns

8 × 3

Computed

2026-08-07

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 2026-08-07, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH day_prices AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toFloat64(close) AS px
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date = '2026-06-17'
      AND volume >= 500000
      AND close >= 1
      AND close <  1000
)
SELECT
    multiIf(px < 2,   '$1 to $2',
            px < 5,   '$2 to $5',
            px < 10,  '$5 to $10',
            px < 25,  '$10 to $25',
            px < 50,  '$25 to $50',
            px < 100, '$50 to $100',
            px < 250, '$100 to $250',
                      '$250 to $1,000') AS price_bucket,
    count()                             AS stock_count,
    round(avg(10000 * 0.01 / px), 2)    AS one_cent_bps
FROM day_prices
GROUP BY price_bucket
ORDER BY min(px)