Ex-dividend events per month across the whole US calendar

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 2026-08-22, from Payment in Lieu of Dividends, Explained.

Rows × columns

12 × 4

Period covered

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date))                  AS month,
    formatDateTime(toStartOfMonth(ex_dividend_date), '%b %Y')   AS month_label,
    count()                                                     AS ex_dividend_events,
    uniqExact(ticker)                                           AS tickers_going_ex
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= '2025-08-01'
  AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-08-01'
GROUP BY month, month_label
ORDER BY month