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Dividends that went ex AFTER the record date: special vs. recurring, trailing 12 months

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 Ex-Dividend Date vs. Record Date: Same Day?.

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Dividends that went ex AFTER the record date: special vs. recurring, trailing 12 months — 2 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dividend_typedividendsex_after_recordpct_ex_after_recordmedian_days_record_to_expct_of_those_ex_after_pay
special457235.031696
recurring44969120.03633
Rows × columns
2 × 6
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Dividends that went ex AFTER the record date: special vs. recurring, trailing 12 months, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
dividend_type text 2 distinct values (recurring, special)
dividends number 457 to 44,969
ex_after_record number 12 to 23
pct_ex_after_record number 0.03 to 5.03 percent
median_days_record_to_ex number 6 to 16
pct_of_those_ex_after_pay number 33 to 96 percent

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 distribution_type AS dividend_type,
       count() AS dividends,
       countIf(ex_dividend_date > record_date) AS ex_after_record,
       round(100.0 * countIf(ex_dividend_date > record_date) / count(), 2) AS pct_ex_after_record,
       round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(dateDiff('day', record_date, ex_dividend_date), cityHash64(id), ex_dividend_date > record_date), 0) AS median_days_record_to_ex,
       round(100.0 * countIf(ex_dividend_date > record_date AND ex_dividend_date > pay_date) / greatest(countIf(ex_dividend_date > record_date), 1), 0) AS pct_of_those_ex_after_pay
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE currency = 'USD'
  AND distribution_type IN ('special', 'recurring')
  AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - INTERVAL 12 MONTH
  AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
  AND record_date IS NOT NULL
  AND pay_date IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY distribution_type
HAVING countIf(ex_dividend_date > record_date) > 0
ORDER BY indexOf(['special', 'recurring'], distribution_type)

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