Monthly count of dividend declarations across the market

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 How Preferred Stock Dividends Work.

Rows × columns

36 × 4

Period covered

2023-08-01 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 declarations,
    countIf(frequency = 4)                                    AS quarterly_declarations
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        any(ifNull(frequency, 0)) AS frequency
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toStartOfMonth(today() - 1095)
      AND ex_dividend_date <  toStartOfMonth(today())
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
GROUP BY month, month_label
ORDER BY month