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Trailing-year cash paid and price change, as a percentage of the starting 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 2026-11-07, from Weekly Dividend ETFs: How the Payouts Work.

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Trailing-year cash paid and price change, as a percentage of the starting price — 10 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerdistributions_pctprice_change_pctcash_plus_price_pct
MRNY122.9192.8315.6
SEMY75.8-57.618.2
AMDW75.75.280.9
ARMW73.7-48.525.1
WNTR72.1-49.722.4
AMDY65.4-2045.4
FIAT63-27.535.5
AMYY62.4-51.710.7
CVNY59.9-39.920
RTYY57-73.6-16.5
Rows × columns
10 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Trailing-year cash paid and price change, as a percentage of the starting price, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 10 distinct values (AMDW, AMDY, AMYY…)
distributions_pct number 57 to 122.9 percent
price_change_pct number -73.6 to 192.8 percent
cash_plus_price_pct number -16.5 to 315.6 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
    weekly AS
    (
        SELECT ticker
        FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
        WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 365
          AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
          AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
        GROUP BY ticker
        HAVING countDistinct(ex_dividend_date) >= 40
    ),
    paid AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            sum(amount) AS cash_12m
        FROM
        (
            SELECT
                ticker,
                ex_dividend_date,
                max(cash_amount) AS amount
            FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
            WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 365
              AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
              AND ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM weekly)
            GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
        )
        GROUP BY ticker
    ),
    px AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            toFloat64(argMin(close, date)) AS start_close,
            toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) AS end_close
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE date >= today() - 365
          AND ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM weekly)
        GROUP BY ticker
        HAVING countDistinct(date) >= 220
    )
SELECT
    c.ticker                                                                                AS ticker,
    round(100 * toFloat64(c.cash_12m) / p.start_close, 1)                                   AS distributions_pct,
    round(100 * (p.end_close - p.start_close) / p.start_close, 1)                           AS price_change_pct,
    round(100 * (toFloat64(c.cash_12m) + p.end_close - p.start_close) / p.start_close, 1)   AS cash_plus_price_pct
FROM paid AS c
INNER JOIN px AS p ON p.ticker = c.ticker
ORDER BY distributions_pct DESC
LIMIT 10
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