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Dividend as a percent of EPS: large equity REITs against every other US dividend payer

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Dividend as a percent of EPS: large equity REITs against every other US dividend payer — 2 rows by 4 columns, computed 2026-08-22 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
category	company_count	median_eps_payout_pct	pct_paying_over_earnings
All other dividend payers	1138	35.8	15.6
Equity REITs	11	126.4	81.8

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT multiIf(ticker IN ('O','SPG','PLD','PSA','AVB','EQR','VTR','WELL','KIM','FRT','NNN','MAA','ARE','IRM'),
               'Equity REITs',
               'All other dividend payers') AS category,
       count() AS company_count,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(dividend_yield * price / earnings_per_share) * 100,
                                        cityHash64(ticker)), 1) AS median_eps_payout_pct,
       round(100 * countIf(dividend_yield * price > earnings_per_share) / count(), 1) AS pct_paying_over_earnings
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
  AND price >= 5
  AND market_cap >= 1000000000
  AND dividend_yield > 0
  AND earnings_per_share > 0
GROUP BY category
ORDER BY category

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