Gap between ex-dividend date and record date, by year
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 2026-09-20, from How Stock Settlement Works Under T+1.
| year | avg_gap_days | same_day_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2.91 | 0.1 |
| 2016 | 2.8 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2.3 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1.51 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 1.53 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 1.41 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1.45 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 1.48 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 1.43 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 0.54 | 63.7 |
| 2025 | 0.03 | 98.1 |
| 2026 | 0.03 | 98.3 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 12 distinct values (2015, 2016, 2017…) | |
avg_gap_days |
number | 0.03 to 2.91 | |
same_day_pct |
number | 0 to 98.3 | 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.
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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.
SELECT
toString(toYear(ex_date)) AS year,
round(avg(gap_days), 2) AS avg_gap_days,
round(100 * countIf(gap_days = 0) / count(), 1) AS same_day_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
ex_dividend_date AS ex_date,
dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, max(record_date)) AS gap_days
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= '2015-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < today()
AND record_date >= ex_dividend_date
AND match(ticker, '^[A-Z]{1,5}$')
GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year