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How long after the ex-date the cash arrives (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 2026-08-22, from What Is an Ex-Dividend Date? How It Works.

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How long after the ex-date the cash arrives (trailing 12 months) — 4 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
wait_from_ex_to_paydividendspct_of_dividends
1 week or less2899664.5
8-14 days642714.3
15-30 days804017.9
31+ days15023.3
Rows × columns
4 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for How long after the ex-date the cash arrives (trailing 12 months), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
wait_from_ex_to_pay text 4 distinct values (1 week or less, 15-30 days, 31+ days…)
dividends number 1,502 to 28,996
pct_of_dividends number 3.3 to 64.5 percent

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.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT multiIf(dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date) <= 7, '1 week or less',
               dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date) <= 14, '8-14 days',
               dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date) <= 30, '15-30 days',
               '31+ days') AS wait_from_ex_to_pay,
       count() AS dividends,
       round(100.0 * count() / sum(count()) OVER (), 1) AS pct_of_dividends
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE currency = 'USD'
  AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
  AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - INTERVAL 12 MONTH
  AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
  AND pay_date IS NOT NULL
  AND pay_date >= ex_dividend_date
GROUP BY wait_from_ex_to_pay
ORDER BY min(dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date))

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