Longest gaps between consecutive AAPL dividend payments, in years

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 AAPL Dividend History: Splits and Raises.

Rows × columns

6 × 4

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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.

WITH payouts AS
(
    SELECT
        id,
        any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
    GROUP BY id
),
sequenced AS
(
    SELECT
        ex_date,
        any(ex_date) OVER (ORDER BY ex_date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING) AS prior_date
    FROM payouts
)
SELECT
    concat(formatDateTime(prior_date, '%b %Y'), ' to ', formatDateTime(ex_date, '%b %Y')) AS gap_between,
    round(dateDiff('day', prior_date, ex_date) / 365.25, 2) AS gap_span,
    formatDateTime(prior_date, '%b %Y')                     AS earlier_payment,
    formatDateTime(ex_date, '%b %Y')                        AS later_payment
FROM sequenced
WHERE prior_date > toDate('1980-01-01')
ORDER BY gap_span DESC
LIMIT 6