A rolling one year mean return, the number an optimizer would be fed

Run it yourself

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.

WITH prices AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        toFloat64(max(close)) AS c
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'KO')
      AND date >= '2015-10-01'
      AND date <  '2025-01-01'
    GROUP BY ticker, date
),
rets AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        c / lagInFrame(c, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) - 1 AS ret
    FROM prices
),
trailing AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        avg(ret) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 251 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) * 252 * 100 AS trailing_mean_pct,
        row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC) AS i
    FROM rets
    WHERE isFinite(ret)
)
SELECT
    toString(toStartOfMonth(date))                     AS month,
    round(avgIf(trailing_mean_pct, ticker = 'SPY'), 1) AS spy_trailing_mean_pct,
    round(avgIf(trailing_mean_pct, ticker = 'KO'), 1)  AS ko_trailing_mean_pct
FROM trailing
WHERE i >= 252
  AND date >= '2017-01-01'
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY month ASC