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Trailing yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions ÷ latest 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 2026-08-15, from What Is Dividend Yield? What's Normal in 2026.

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Trailing yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions ÷ latest price — 13 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerpricettm_distributions_usdpaymentstrailing_yield_pct
AMLP54.84.0747.43
VNQ98.753.47343.52
XLU44.291.47943.34
XLRE45.231.40543.11
XLE61.891.89243.06
XLP86.12.19742.55
XLB52.481.06342.03
XLV167.432.53341.51
XLF58.140.80741.39
XLC113.171.43141.26
XLI186.472.05941.1
XLY118.171.11540.94
XLK190.050.97240.51
Rows × columns
13 × 5
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 yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions ÷ latest price, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 13 distinct values (AMLP, VNQ, XLB…)
price number 44.29 to 190.05 US dollars
ttm_distributions_usd number 0.807 to 4.07 US dollars
payments number every row is 4
trailing_yield_pct number 0.51 to 7.43 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 px AS (
    SELECT ticker, argMax(close, window_start) AS price
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('XLU','XLRE','XLE','XLF','XLP','XLV','XLI','XLB','XLC','XLY','XLK','VNQ','AMLP')
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker
),
dv AS (
    SELECT ticker, sum(cash_amount) AS ttm_div, count() AS payments
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('XLU','XLRE','XLE','XLF','XLP','XLV','XLI','XLB','XLC','XLY','XLK','VNQ','AMLP')
      AND ex_dividend_date > today() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND cash_amount > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT px.ticker AS ticker,
       round(px.price, 2) AS price,
       round(dv.ttm_div, 3) AS ttm_distributions_usd,
       dv.payments AS payments,
       round(dv.ttm_div / px.price * 100, 2) AS trailing_yield_pct
FROM px
INNER JOIN dv ON px.ticker = dv.ticker
ORDER BY trailing_yield_pct DESC

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