Wait from record date to payment, by declared dividend cadence (US listed, last two years)
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 2026-11-07, from Ex-Dividend Dates on the ASX: Rules & Timing.
| payment_cadence | records_counted | avg_days_record_to_payment |
|---|---|---|
| Annual | 4678 | 13.5 |
| Monthly | 40822 | 6.8 |
| Other or unstated | 14608 | 5.9 |
| Quarterly | 35004 | 12.9 |
| Semiannual (interim and final) | 8790 | 29 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
payment_cadence |
text | 5 distinct values (Annual, Monthly, Other or unstated…) | |
records_counted |
number | 4,678 to 40,822 | |
avg_days_record_to_payment |
number | 5.9 to 29 |
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
multiIf(freq = 1, 'Annual',
freq = 2, 'Semiannual (interim and final)',
freq = 4, 'Quarterly',
freq = 12, 'Monthly',
'Other or unstated') AS payment_cadence,
count() AS records_counted,
round(avg(dateDiff('day', rec_date, pay_dt)), 1) AS avg_days_record_to_payment
FROM
(
SELECT
id,
any(frequency) AS freq,
any(record_date) AS rec_date,
any(pay_date) AS pay_dt
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 730
AND ex_dividend_date < today()
AND pay_date >= record_date
AND dateDiff('day', record_date, pay_date) <= 120
GROUP BY id
)
GROUP BY payment_cadence
ORDER BY payment_cadence
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