Days between ex-dividend date and record date, ten household payers
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?.
| quarter_date | quarter_label | avg_days_ex_to_record | dividends_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | Q1 2022 | 1.5 | 10 |
| 2022-04-01 | Q2 2022 | 1.3 | 10 |
| 2022-07-01 | Q3 2022 | 1.2 | 10 |
| 2022-10-01 | Q4 2022 | 1.2 | 10 |
| 2023-01-01 | Q1 2023 | 1.5 | 10 |
| 2023-04-01 | Q2 2023 | 1.2 | 10 |
| 2023-07-01 | Q3 2023 | 1.4 | 10 |
| 2023-10-01 | Q4 2023 | 1.2 | 10 |
| 2024-01-01 | Q1 2024 | 1.8 | 10 |
| 2024-04-01 | Q2 2024 | 1.3 | 10 |
| 2024-07-01 | Q3 2024 | 0 | 10 |
| 2024-10-01 | Q4 2024 | 0.3 | 10 |
| 2025-01-01 | Q1 2025 | 0 | 10 |
| 2025-04-01 | Q2 2025 | 0 | 10 |
| 2025-07-01 | Q3 2025 | 0 | 10 |
| 2025-10-01 | Q4 2025 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-01-01 | Q1 2026 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-04-01 | Q2 2026 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-07-01 | Q3 2026 | 0 | 10 |
- Rows × columns
- 19 × 4
- Period covered
- to
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
quarter_date |
date | 2022-01-01 to 2026-07-01 | |
quarter_label |
text | 19 distinct values (Q1 2022, Q1 2023, Q1 2024…) | |
avg_days_ex_to_record |
number | 0 to 1.8 | |
dividends_count |
number | every row is 10 | count |
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 record_date
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'XOM', 'CVX', 'JPM', 'ABBV', 'CSCO')
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2022-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < '2026-10-01'
GROUP BY id
)
SELECT
toString(toStartOfQuarter(ex_date)) AS quarter_date,
concat('Q', toString(toQuarter(ex_date)), ' ', toString(toYear(ex_date))) AS quarter_label,
round(avg(dateDiff('day', ex_date, record_date)), 2) AS avg_days_ex_to_record,
count() AS dividends_count
FROM deduped
WHERE record_date >= ex_date
AND dateDiff('day', ex_date, record_date) <= 10
GROUP BY quarter_date, quarter_label
ORDER BY quarter_date
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