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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?.

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Average days between ex-dividend dates, 2021 to date — 10 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerpaymentslatest_ex_dateavg_days_between_ex_dates
ABBV23Jul 15, 202691.3
JPM23Jul 6, 202691.3
CSCO23Jul 6, 202691.3
PG23Jul 24, 202691.4
CVX23Aug 19, 202691.4
JNJ23Aug 25, 202691.4
MSFT23Aug 20, 202691.4
KO23Sep 15, 202691.5
AAPL23Aug 10, 202691.5
XOM23Aug 17, 202691.6
Rows × columns
10 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Average days between ex-dividend dates, 2021 to date, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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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