Large special dividends from well-known payers since 2012
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 2026-07-15, from What Is a Special Dividend? (With Examples).
| payer_year | year | special_dividend_usd |
|---|---|---|
| COST 2023 | 2023 | 15 |
| COST 2020 | 2020 | 10 |
| COST 2012 | 2012 | 7 |
| COST 2017 | 2017 | 7 |
| CME 2026 | 2026 | 6.15 |
| FIZZ 2020 | 2020 | 6 |
| CME 2024 | 2024 | 5.8 |
| CME 2023 | 2023 | 5.25 |
| LYB 2022 | 2022 | 5.2 |
| COST 2015 | 2015 | 5 |
| CME 2022 | 2022 | 4.5 |
| CME 2017 | 2017 | 3.5 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
payer_year |
text | 12 distinct values (CME 2017, CME 2022, CME 2023…) | |
year |
number | 2,012 to 2,026 | |
special_dividend_usd |
number | 3.5 to 15 | 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.
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SELECT
concat(ticker, ' ', toString(toYear(ex_dividend_date))) AS payer_year,
toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
round(cash_amount, 2) AS special_dividend_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE frequency = 0
AND cash_amount >= 1
AND ticker IN ('COST', 'FIZZ', 'CME', 'LYB', 'LVS', 'EBAY', 'MPC', 'WSM', 'BBY', 'HRB')
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2012-01-01'
ORDER BY special_dividend_usd DESC, payer_year ASC
LIMIT 12
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