forward_split_months
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 2026-10-01, from do-stock-splits-need-shareholder-approval.
| month | month_name | forward_splits |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | May | 573 |
| 6 | June | 489 |
| 8 | August | 444 |
| 3 | March | 435 |
| 9 | September | 407 |
| 4 | April | 371 |
| 7 | July | 362 |
| 12 | December | 362 |
| 11 | November | 349 |
| 10 | October | 345 |
| 1 | January | 254 |
| 2 | February | 225 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
month |
number | 1 to 12 | |
month_name |
text | 12 distinct values (April, August, December…) | |
forward_splits |
number | 225 to 573 |
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.
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SELECT
toMonth(execution_date) AS month,
monthName(any(execution_date)) AS month_name,
countDistinct(id) AS forward_splits
FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
WHERE split_to > split_from
AND execution_date >= '2015-01-01'
AND execution_date < '2026-01-01'
AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY forward_splits DESC, month ASC
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