How far ahead dividends were declared, trailing 12 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 2026-11-01, from Ex-Dividend Calendar from a Free SQL API.
| lead_time_bucket | dividend_count |
|---|---|
| 7 days or less | 10442 |
| 8 to 14 days | 6468 |
| 15 to 30 days | 6482 |
| 31 to 60 days | 5173 |
| more than 60 days | 19005 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 2
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
lead_time_bucket |
text | 5 distinct values | |
dividend_count |
number | 5,173 to 19,005 | count |
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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WITH declared AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
ex_dividend_date,
max(declaration_date) AS declared_on
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 365
AND ex_dividend_date < today()
AND currency = 'USD'
AND declaration_date > toDate('2000-01-01')
AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
),
lead_times AS
(
SELECT dateDiff('day', declared_on, ex_dividend_date) AS lead_days
FROM declared
WHERE declared_on <= ex_dividend_date
)
SELECT
multiIf(
lead_days <= 7, '7 days or less',
lead_days <= 14, '8 to 14 days',
lead_days <= 30, '15 to 30 days',
lead_days <= 60, '31 to 60 days',
'more than 60 days') AS lead_time_bucket,
count() AS dividend_count
FROM lead_times
GROUP BY lead_time_bucket
ORDER BY min(lead_days)
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