Days from ex-dividend date to cash: six household dividend payers

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 2026-08-11, from Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) Explained.

Rows × columns

6 × 4

Computed

2026-08-11

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 2026-08-11, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH payouts AS (
    SELECT
        ticker,
        any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date,
        any(pay_date)         AS paid_on
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'JNJ', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'O', 'PG')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= '2024-07-01'
      AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-07-01'
      AND cash_amount > 0
    GROUP BY id, ticker
)
SELECT
    ticker,
    count()                                          AS payment_count,
    round(avg(dateDiff('day', ex_date, paid_on)), 1) AS avg_days_ex_to_pay,
    max(dateDiff('day', ex_date, paid_on))           AS max_days_ex_to_pay
FROM payouts
WHERE paid_on > ex_date
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY avg_days_ex_to_pay DESC