pay_rhythm
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 2026-09-23, from what-is-income.
| pay_rhythm | companies |
|---|---|
| Every quarter | 5002 |
| Twice for one year | 3234 |
| Once for one year | 2455 |
| Every month | 2067 |
| Other rhythm | 1884 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 2
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
pay_rhythm |
text | 5 distinct values | |
companies |
number | 1,884 to 5,002 |
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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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT
multiIf(frequency = 12, 'Every month',
frequency = 4, 'Every quarter',
frequency = 2, 'Twice for one year',
frequency = 1, 'Once for one year',
'Other rhythm') AS pay_rhythm,
uniqExact(ticker) AS companies
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 365
AND ex_dividend_date < today()
GROUP BY pay_rhythm
ORDER BY companies DESC
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