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.
| lead_time_bucket | dividend_count |
|---|---|
| 7 days or less | 10142 |
| 8 to 14 days | 6522 |
| 15 to 30 days | 6515 |
| 31 to 60 days | 5104 |
| more than 60 days | 18476 |
- 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 | 5,104 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.
Run it yourself
This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
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)