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 2026-09-20, from Payment in Lieu of Dividends, Explained.
| month | month_label | ex_dividend_events | tickers_going_ex |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-01 | Aug 2025 | 3724 | 3496 |
| 2025-09-01 | Sep 2025 | 5000 | 4736 |
| 2025-10-01 | Oct 2025 | 3225 | 2835 |
| 2025-11-01 | Nov 2025 | 3733 | 3283 |
| 2025-12-01 | Dec 2025 | 7508 | 6243 |
| 2026-01-01 | Jan 2026 | 2564 | 2023 |
| 2026-02-01 | Feb 2026 | 3575 | 3078 |
| 2026-03-01 | Mar 2026 | 6815 | 6121 |
| 2026-04-01 | Apr 2026 | 3947 | 3305 |
| 2026-05-01 | May 2026 | 4804 | 4160 |
| 2026-06-01 | Jun 2026 | 6651 | 5995 |
| 2026-07-01 | Jul 2026 | 3851 | 3172 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
month |
date | 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 | |
month_label |
text | 12 distinct values (Apr 2026, Aug 2025, Dec 2025…) | |
ex_dividend_events |
number | 2,564 to 7,508 | |
tickers_going_ex |
number | 2,023 to 6,243 |
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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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