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Ex-date opening gap by dividend size, US quarterly dividends 2024 to 2025

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 Can You Sell on the Ex-Dividend Date?.

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Ex-date opening gap by dividend size, US quarterly dividends 2024 to 2025 — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dividend_bucketsample_sizeavg_dividend_pctavg_open_gap_pct
under 0.25%9290.1460.045
0.25% to 0.50%13890.370.228
0.50% to 1.00%19070.7340.569
1.00% to 2.00%10171.3311.201
over 2.00%2703.0472.651
Rows × columns
5 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Ex-date opening gap by dividend size, US quarterly dividends 2024 to 2025, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
dividend_bucket text 5 distinct values
sample_size number 270 to 1,907
avg_dividend_pct number 0.146 to 3.047 percent
avg_open_gap_pct number 0.045 to 2.651 percent

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 , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH px AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        toFloat64(open) AS open_px,
        volume,
        toFloat64(any(close) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING)) AS prior_close
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date BETWEEN toDate('2023-12-15') AND toDate('2025-12-31')
),
ex AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        max(cash_amount) AS div_cash
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date BETWEEN toDate('2024-01-01') AND toDate('2025-12-31')
      AND frequency = 4
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND currency = 'USD'
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
SELECT
    multiIf(
        div_pct < 0.25, 'under 0.25%',
        div_pct < 0.50, '0.25% to 0.50%',
        div_pct < 1.00, '0.50% to 1.00%',
        div_pct < 2.00, '1.00% to 2.00%',
                        'over 2.00%')  AS dividend_bucket,
    count()                            AS sample_size,
    round(avg(div_pct), 3)             AS avg_dividend_pct,
    round(avg(open_gap_pct), 3)        AS avg_open_gap_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        100 * toFloat64(ex.div_cash) / px.prior_close         AS div_pct,
        100 * (px.prior_close - px.open_px) / px.prior_close AS open_gap_pct
    FROM px
    INNER JOIN ex ON px.ticker = ex.ticker AND px.date = ex.ex_dividend_date
    WHERE px.prior_close >= 10
      AND px.open_px > 0
      AND px.volume >= 1000000
)
GROUP BY dividend_bucket
ORDER BY avg_dividend_pct

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