How long after the ex-date the cash actually arrives

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 Qualified Dividend Holding Period: 61 Days.

Rows × columns

10 × 3

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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
    concat(toString(bucket * 7), ' to ', toString(bucket * 7 + 6), ' days') AS ex_to_pay_window,
    count()                                                                 AS payment_count,
    formatReadableQuantity(count())                                         AS payments_readable
FROM
(
    SELECT intDiv(dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date), 7) AS bucket
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE pay_date >= today() - 365
      AND pay_date <  today()
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date) BETWEEN 0 AND 69
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date, pay_date, cash_amount
)
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY bucket