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Days from the ex-dividend date to the pay date, past two years

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.

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Days from the ex-dividend date to the pay date, past two years — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
ex_to_pay_gapdeclarationssecurities
0 to 7 days539996483
8 to 14 days176674097
15 to 21 days166943669
22 to 28 days38681523
29 to 42 days42811440
More than 42 days32231596
Rows × columns
6 × 3
Computed
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

Column definitions for Days from the ex-dividend date to the pay date, past two years, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ex_to_pay_gap text 6 distinct values
declarations number 3,223 to 53,999
securities number 1,440 to 6,483

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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    multiIf(gap_days <= 7,  '0 to 7 days',
            gap_days <= 14, '8 to 14 days',
            gap_days <= 21, '15 to 21 days',
            gap_days <= 28, '22 to 28 days',
            gap_days <= 42, '29 to 42 days',
                            'More than 42 days') AS ex_to_pay_gap,
    count()                                      AS declarations,
    countDistinct(ticker)                        AS securities
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, any(pay_date)) AS gap_days
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 730
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND pay_date >= ex_dividend_date
      AND pay_date <= ex_dividend_date + 180
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
GROUP BY ex_to_pay_gap
ORDER BY min(gap_days)

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