Listed names averaging above $250 a share, by month

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 Why Odd Lots Don't Set the NBBO.

Rows × columns

24 × 2

Period covered

2024-08 to 2026-07

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    formatDateTime(m, '%Y-%m') AS month,
    countIf(avg_close > 250)   AS stocks_above_250
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toStartOfMonth(date)  AS m,
        ticker,
        avg(toFloat64(close)) AS avg_close
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date >= toStartOfMonth(today() - 730)
      AND date <  toStartOfMonth(today())
      AND close > 0
    GROUP BY m, ticker
)
GROUP BY m
ORDER BY m