Calendar days from ex-dividend date to record date (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 2026-09-20, from Ex-Dividend Date vs. Record Date: Same Day?.
| calendar_days_ex_to_record | dividends | pct |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 46643 | 99.1 |
| 1 | 236 | 0.5 |
| 2 | 144 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 47 | 0.1 |
- Rows × columns
- 4 × 3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
calendar_days_ex_to_record |
number | 0 to 3 | |
dividends |
number | 47 to 46,643 | |
pct |
number | 0.1 to 99.1 | 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.
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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, record_date) AS calendar_days_ex_to_record,
count() AS dividends,
round(100.0 * count() / sum(count()) OVER (), 1) AS pct
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE currency = 'USD'
AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - INTERVAL 12 MONTH
AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
AND record_date IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY calendar_days_ex_to_record
HAVING dividends >= 20
ORDER BY dividends DESC