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declaration_lead

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 2026-09-22, from ex-dividend-calendar-from-the-free-sql-api.

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declaration_lead — 5 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
lead_time_bucketdividend_count
7 days or less10142
8 to 14 days6522
15 to 30 days6515
31 to 60 days5104
more than 60 days18476
Rows × columns
5 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for declaration_lead, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
lead_time_bucket text 5 distinct values
dividend_count number 5,104 to 18,476 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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