How long 13F holdings filings take to reach the public

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

16 × 3

Period covered

2022-09-30 to 2026-06-30

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 per_filing AS
(
    SELECT
        accession_number,
        any(toDate(parseDateTimeBestEffortOrNull(toString(period)))) AS period_end,
        any(toDate(filing_date))                                     AS filed_on
    FROM global_markets.stocks_13f_filings
    WHERE filing_date >= '2023-01-01'
    GROUP BY accession_number
)
SELECT
    toString(period_end)                                 AS period_end_date,
    countDistinct(accession_number)                      AS filings_count,
    round(avg(dateDiff('day', period_end, filed_on)), 1) AS avg_days_to_public
FROM per_filing
WHERE period_end IS NOT NULL
  AND filed_on >= period_end
  AND filed_on <= period_end + 400
GROUP BY period_end
HAVING filings_count >= 100
ORDER BY period_end