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Trailing vs forward dividend yield: eight large payers, latest session price

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 Trailing vs Forward Dividend Yield Explained.

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Trailing vs forward dividend yield: eight large payers, latest session price — 8 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickertrailing_yield_pctforward_yield_pctforward_minus_trailing_ppchecks_in_windowshare_price
PEP4.014.130.124143.5
PG2.963.010.044144.74
JNJ1.941.980.044270.62
KO2.282.330.04491.04
MCD2.712.750.034270.83
CVX3.433.470.034205.25
ABBV2.572.60.034266
MSFT0.750.7504483.7
Rows × columns
8 × 6
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Trailing vs forward dividend yield: eight large payers, latest session price, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 8 distinct values (ABBV, CVX, JNJ…)
trailing_yield_pct number 0.75 to 4.01 percent
forward_yield_pct number 0.75 to 4.13 percent
forward_minus_trailing_pp number 0 to 0.12
checks_in_window number every row is 4
share_price number 91.04 to 483.7 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 last_px AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           argMax(close, window_start) AS close_price
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('ABBV', 'CVX', 'JNJ', 'KO', 'MCD', 'MSFT', 'PEP', 'PG')
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 10 DAY
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker
),
paid AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           sum(cash_amount) AS ttm_cash,
           count() AS checks_in_window,
           argMax(cash_amount, ex_dividend_date) AS latest_cash,
           argMax(frequency, ex_dividend_date) AS pay_frequency
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('ABBV', 'CVX', 'JNJ', 'KO', 'MCD', 'MSFT', 'PEP', 'PG')
      AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND ex_dividend_date > today() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT p.ticker AS ticker,
       round(toFloat64(d.ttm_cash) / toFloat64(p.close_price) * 100, 2) AS trailing_yield_pct,
       round(toFloat64(d.latest_cash) * d.pay_frequency / toFloat64(p.close_price) * 100, 2) AS forward_yield_pct,
       round((toFloat64(d.latest_cash) * d.pay_frequency - toFloat64(d.ttm_cash))
             / toFloat64(p.close_price) * 100, 2) AS forward_minus_trailing_pp,
       d.checks_in_window AS checks_in_window,
       round(toFloat64(p.close_price), 2) AS share_price
FROM last_px AS p
INNER JOIN paid AS d ON p.ticker = d.ticker
ORDER BY forward_minus_trailing_pp DESC

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