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Covered Calls on KO: Premium vs Dividend
Monthly 30 delta call premium versus trailing dividend yieldranking · 2026-10-09 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. KO 30 delta monthly call premium, month by monthseries · 2026-10-09 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. KO call chain: premium split into intrinsic and extrinsic value, by delta bandranking · 2026-10-09 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Median near-the-money implied volatility, July to September 2026ranking · 2026-10-09 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Extrinsic value in KO's in-the-money calls versus the dividend, in the week before each ex dateseries · 2026-10-09 · 11×5Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower.
Covered Calls on AAPL: A Worked Example
The same 0.30 delta AAPL write, repeated on the first session of every monthseries · 2026-10-05 · 61×7Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Implied volatility and premium on 0.25 to 0.35 delta calls, AAPL against comparison namesranking · 2026-10-05 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. AAPL dividend versus the time value left in the nearest in-the-money call, the day before each ex datetable · 2026-10-05 · 20×7 Outcomes of the repeated monthly AAPL write, by delta targettable · 2026-10-05 · 6×6 One AAPL call per delta target, about 30 days out, with the covered call math appliedtable · 2026-10-05 · 6×10
Weekly Dividend ETFs: How the Payouts Work
Symbols paying on a weekly cadence, by complete calendar yearranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Symbols with the most ex-dividend dates in the trailing yearranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Every distribution from the most frequent payer, with its annualized rateseries · 2026-10-04 · 104×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Average distribution against the average ex-date price moveranking · 2026-10-04 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Trailing-year cash paid and price change, as a percentage of the starting priceranking · 2026-10-04 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Stocks With the Highest Option Premiums
Premium as a percent of strike by tenor, against the square root of time estimateranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. The same calls ranked by premium as a percent of strikeranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Near the money 30 day calls ranked by dollar premiumtable · 2026-10-04 · 12×5 Percent of strike leaders at a 100 contract floor, with the flow behind themranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
Return of Capital in ETF Distributions
QYLD by calendar year: cash paid, average price, implied ratetable · 2026-10-04 · 5×5 Share price indexed to 100, three covered call ETFs, monthlyseries · 2026-10-04 · 59×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Trailing year distribution rate, price change, and approximate total returnranking · 2026-10-04 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Cash distributions per share, month by monthseries · 2026-10-04 · 59×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Monthly Dividend ETFs: Who Actually Pays
Trailing 12 month distribution rate, by fund familyranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Distributions per year: monthly funds beside quarterly benchmarksranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Days from ex dividend date to cash, monthly paying fundsranking · 2026-10-04 · 9×2Preview: 9 ranked values, largest first. Monthly cash per share: an option income fund and a bond fundseries · 2026-10-04 · 24×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
Gold Miner Covered Call ETFs: Yield vs Upside
2026 price return, distributions and total return: miners, wrapper and bulliontable · 2026-10-04 · 4×5 Monthly price move, 2026: GDX vs the covered call wrapper GDXYseries · 2026-10-04 · 10×3Preview: a 10-point series, roughly flat. Monthly at-the-money IV: GDX, GDXJ and SPY over the past yearseries · 2026-10-04 · 13×5Preview: a 13-point series, roughly flat. At-the-money implied volatility: gold miners vs bullion vs the S&P 500table · 2026-10-04 · 4×6
Crypto Covered Call ETFs: Yield Explained
Implied volatility on near the money contracts, last four monthsranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Monthly near the money implied volatility, two yearsseries · 2026-10-04 · 24×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Month end close measured against the two year highseries · 2026-10-04 · 24×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Count of big up months over the last three yearstable · 2026-10-04 · 3×5 One month call premium as a percentage of the underlying priceranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Covered Call Closed-End Funds vs ETFs
Short-term Treasury yields by month, the reference for fund borrowing costsseries · 2026-10-04 · 36×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Cash distributions over the trailing year, by declared scheduleranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Monthly cost of a near-the-money call, as a percent of share priceseries · 2026-10-04 · 18×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Poor Man's Covered Call: How the Trade Works
Dividend cash paid on 100 shares over the trailing yearranking · 2026-09-26 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Covered Calls on Futures: How They Work
SPY dividends paid over the past three yearsseries · 2026-09-26 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, roughly flat.
When Covered Calls Trigger the Straddle Rules
KO ex dividend dates and the 121 day qualified dividend windowseries · 2026-09-26 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Covered Call Screener: Build One in SQL
The covered call screen, ranked by annualised yield, last session of August 2026table · 2026-09-26 · 12×8 The same screen replayed monthly, and how the selected calls finishedseries · 2026-09-26 · 11×5Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. Annualised call premium at 0.25 to 0.35 delta, eight liquid names, August 2026ranking · 2026-09-26 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. AAPL call premium yield by delta band, August 2026table · 2026-09-26 · 6×5
How to Roll an Option Position: Up and Out
Moving the strike up costs premium: AAPL calls 30 to 45 days outranking · 2026-08-07 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. What extra time is worth: at-the-money AAPL call premium by days to expiryranking · 2026-08-07 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Time value left in an in-the-money KO call as expiry approachesranking · 2026-08-07 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. 2026 cash dividends per share at eight widely held payersranking · 2026-08-07 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first.
How to Calculate Covered Call Returns
Median implied volatility on near-the-money AAPL calls, by monthseries · 2026-08-05 · 24×2Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Median implied volatility on 20 to 45 day near-the-money calls, July 2026ranking · 2026-08-05 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. AAPL call delta by strike distance, 20 to 45 days to expiry, July 2026ranking · 2026-08-05 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. AAPL by month: the stock's move against the same move capped at 5%series · 2026-08-05 · 24×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
Covered Call ETFs: the Real Tradeoff
Three years of total return, split into price change and distributions: July 2023 to June 2026table · 2026-08-01 · 8×7 Total return by calendar year: a Nasdaq index fund vs a Nasdaq covered call fundranking · 2026-08-01 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Price path indexed to 100: two index funds and their covered call counterparts, month endsseries · 2026-08-01 · 36×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
The Wheel Strategy: How the Loop Works
SPY's closing price across the contract window, May 1 to Jun 15 2026series · 2026-07-31 · 31×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The wheel pair at entry, the SPY peak, the dip, and the final sessiontable · 2026-07-31 · 4×5 The SPY $740 put split into intrinsic and time value, daily to Jun 15 2026series · 2026-07-31 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Both legs of the wheel: SPY $740 put vs $740 call, same Jun 18 2026 expiryseries · 2026-07-31 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Covered Call vs Cash-Secured Put
Both positions at four moments: entry, three weeks in, the SPY high, and the June diptable · 2026-07-31 · 4×5 What each strike paid on May 1, 2026: SPY June 18 calls and puts side by sideranking · 2026-07-31 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Covered call vs cash-secured put: profit and loss per share, same strike, same expiryseries · 2026-07-31 · 29×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Monthly 30 delta call premium versus trailing dividend yield

Monthly 30 delta call premium versus trailing dividend yield

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Monthly 30 delta call premium versus trailing dividend yield — 7 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolmonthly_call_premium_pcttrailing_dividend_yield_pctquarterly_dividend_pct
KO1.072.440.61
PG1.172.950.74
XOM1.532.530.63
JNJ1.31.990.5
MSFT1.830.710.18
AAPL1.410.320.08
NVDA1.980.230.06
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH
premium AS
(
    SELECT
        underlying_symbol                                                          AS symbol,
        round(100 * avg(toFloat64(option_close) / toFloat64(underlying_close)), 2) AS monthly_call_premium_pct
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('KO', 'PG', 'JNJ', 'XOM', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA')
      AND upper(toString(option_type)) IN ('C', 'CALL')
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 25 AND 40
      AND toFloat64(delta) BETWEEN 0.25 AND 0.35
      AND date >= '2026-07-01'
      AND date <  '2026-10-01'
    GROUP BY symbol
),
cash AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker                      AS symbol,
        sum(toFloat64(cash_amount)) AS ttm_dividend_usd
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            ex_dividend_date,
            max(cash_amount) AS cash_amount
        FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
        WHERE ticker IN ('KO', 'PG', 'JNJ', 'XOM', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA')
          AND ex_dividend_date >= '2025-10-01'
          AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-10-01'
        GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
    )
    GROUP BY symbol
),
price AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker                         AS symbol,
        toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) AS last_close
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('KO', 'PG', 'JNJ', 'XOM', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA')
      AND date >= '2026-09-01'
      AND date <  '2026-10-01'
    GROUP BY symbol
)
SELECT
    p.symbol                                           AS symbol,
    p.monthly_call_premium_pct                         AS monthly_call_premium_pct,
    round(100 * c.ttm_dividend_usd / pr.last_close, 2) AS trailing_dividend_yield_pct,
    round(25 * c.ttm_dividend_usd / pr.last_close, 2)  AS quarterly_dividend_pct
FROM premium AS p
INNER JOIN cash AS c ON c.symbol = p.symbol
INNER JOIN price AS pr ON pr.symbol = p.symbol
ORDER BY (p.symbol = 'KO') DESC, trailing_dividend_yield_pct DESC
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