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Where US dividend payers sit: yield bands, $1B+ market cap, latest snapshot

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 What Is a Good Dividend Yield in 2026?.

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Where US dividend payers sit: yield bands, $1B+ market cap, latest snapshot — 7 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yield_bandcompany_countpct_of_payerscumulative_pct
under 1%3562828
1 to 2%2802250.1
2 to 3%25119.869.8
3 to 4%13110.380.2
4 to 6%14311.391.4
6 to 8%534.295.6
8% and up564.4100
Rows × columns
7 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Where US dividend payers sit: yield bands, $1B+ market cap, latest snapshot, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
yield_band text 7 distinct values (1 to 2%, 2 to 3%, 3 to 4%…)
company_count number 53 to 356 count
pct_of_payers number 4.2 to 28 percent
cumulative_pct number 28 to 100 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH payers AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           argMax(dividend_yield, date) * 100 AS yield_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
    WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
      AND price >= 5
      AND market_cap >= 1000000000
      AND dividend_yield > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
),
banded AS (
    SELECT multiIf(yield_pct < 1, 'under 1%',
                   yield_pct < 2, '1 to 2%',
                   yield_pct < 3, '2 to 3%',
                   yield_pct < 4, '3 to 4%',
                   yield_pct < 6, '4 to 6%',
                   yield_pct < 8, '6 to 8%',
                   '8% and up') AS yield_band,
           min(yield_pct) AS band_floor,
           count() AS company_count
    FROM payers
    GROUP BY yield_band
)
SELECT yield_band,
       company_count,
       round(100 * company_count / sum(company_count) OVER (), 1) AS pct_of_payers,
       round(100 * sum(company_count) OVER (ORDER BY band_floor) / sum(company_count) OVER (), 1) AS cumulative_pct
FROM banded
ORDER BY band_floor

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