Average days between ex-dividend dates, 2021 to 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 2026-10-05, from Is There a Minimum Holding Period for Stocks?.
| ticker | payments | latest_ex_date | avg_days_between_ex_dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABBV | 23 | Jul 15, 2026 | 91.3 |
| JPM | 23 | Jul 6, 2026 | 91.3 |
| CSCO | 23 | Jul 6, 2026 | 91.3 |
| PG | 23 | Jul 24, 2026 | 91.4 |
| CVX | 23 | Aug 19, 2026 | 91.4 |
| JNJ | 23 | Aug 25, 2026 | 91.4 |
| MSFT | 23 | Aug 20, 2026 | 91.4 |
| KO | 23 | Sep 15, 2026 | 91.5 |
| AAPL | 23 | Aug 10, 2026 | 91.5 |
| XOM | 23 | Aug 17, 2026 | 91.6 |
- Rows × columns
- 10 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 10 distinct values (AAPL, ABBV, CSCO…) | |
payments |
number | every row is 23 | |
latest_ex_date |
text | 9 distinct values (Aug 10, 2026, Aug 17, 2026, Aug 19, 2026…) | |
avg_days_between_ex_dates |
number | 91.3 to 91.6 |
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(ticker) AS sym,
any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'XOM', 'CVX', 'JPM', 'ABBV', 'CSCO')
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2021-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < '2026-10-01'
GROUP BY id
)
SELECT
sym AS ticker,
count() AS payments,
formatDateTime(max(ex_date), '%b %e, %Y') AS latest_ex_date,
round(dateDiff('day', min(ex_date), max(ex_date)) / (count() - 1), 1) AS avg_days_between_ex_dates
FROM deduped
GROUP BY sym
HAVING count() >= 8
ORDER BY avg_days_between_ex_dates
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