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Payments in lieu owed on a 100-share AAPL short, by ex-dividend date

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 2026-09-14, from How to Short a Stock, Step by Step.

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Payments in lieu owed on a 100-share AAPL short, by ex-dividend date — 4 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
ex_dateex_date_labeldividend_cents_per_shareowed_per_100_sharesowed_running_total_per_100
2025-11-10Nov 10, 2025262626
2026-02-09Feb 9, 2026262652
2026-05-11May 11, 2026272779
2026-08-10Aug 10, 20262727106
Rows × columns
4 × 5
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Payments in lieu owed on a 100-share AAPL short, by ex-dividend date, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ex_date date 2025-11-10 to 2026-08-10
ex_date_label text 4 distinct values (Aug 10, 2026, Feb 9, 2026, May 11, 2026…)
dividend_cents_per_share number 26 to 27
owed_per_100_shares number 26 to 27 count
owed_running_total_per_100 number 26 to 106

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
    ex_date,
    ex_date_label,
    dividend_cents_per_share,
    owed_per_100_shares,
    round(sum(owed_per_100_shares) OVER (ORDER BY ex_date ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW), 2) AS owed_running_total_per_100
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toString(toDate(ex_dividend_date))                        AS ex_date,
        concat(formatDateTime(toDate(ex_dividend_date), '%b'), ' ',
               toString(toDayOfMonth(toDate(ex_dividend_date))), ', ',
               toString(toYear(toDate(ex_dividend_date))))        AS ex_date_label,
        round(toFloat64(max(cash_amount)) * 100, 2)               AS dividend_cents_per_share,
        round(toFloat64(max(cash_amount)) * 100, 2)               AS owed_per_100_shares
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
      AND ex_dividend_date >= '2025-09-01'
      AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-09-01'
    GROUP BY ex_dividend_date
    HAVING max(cash_amount) > 0
)
ORDER BY ex_date

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