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settlement_gap

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 2026-09-24, from ex-dividend-dates-on-the-asx.

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settlement_gap — 8 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearavg_days_ex_to_recordsame_day_pctdividends_counted
20191.540.139232
20201.42036361
20211.460.138558
20221.480.140410
20231.430.141603
20240.5463.444200
20250.0397.949129
20260.0398.240738
Rows × columns
8 × 4
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 settlement_gap, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year number 2,019 to 2,026
avg_days_ex_to_record number 0.03 to 1.54
same_day_pct number 0 to 98.2 percent
dividends_counted number 36,361 to 49,129

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 deduped AS
(
    SELECT
        id,
        any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date,
        any(record_date)      AS rec_date
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2019-01-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date <  today()
      AND record_date >= ex_dividend_date
      AND dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, record_date) <= 7
    GROUP BY id
)
SELECT
    toYear(ex_date)                                        AS year,
    round(avg(dateDiff('day', ex_date, rec_date)), 2)      AS avg_days_ex_to_record,
    round(100 * countIf(rec_date = ex_date) / count(), 1)  AS same_day_pct,
    count()                                                AS dividends_counted
FROM deduped
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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