Days between a dividend declaration and its ex-date, 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 h5i-db: Point-in-Time Data for Backtests.

Rows × columns

24 × 3

Period covered

2024-08-01 to 2026-07-01

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
    toString(toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date))                         AS month,
    round(avg(dateDiff('day', declaration_date, ex_dividend_date)), 1) AS avg_days_announced_ahead,
    countDistinct(ticker)                                              AS payers_count
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toStartOfMonth(today() - 730)
  AND ex_dividend_date <  toStartOfMonth(today())
  AND declaration_date >= '1990-01-01'
  AND declaration_date <= ex_dividend_date
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY month