Days from ex-dividend date to pay date, last three 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 SPY Dividend Yield: Why It Trails the Index.

Rows × columns

3 × 4

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.

WITH divs AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date,
        any(pay_date) AS payment_date
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'VOO', 'IVV')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - 1095
      AND ex_dividend_date <  today()
      AND pay_date > ex_dividend_date
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
SELECT
    ticker,
    round(avg(dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, payment_date)), 1) AS avg_days_cash_held,
    max(dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, payment_date))           AS longest_wait_days,
    count()                                                        AS payout_count
FROM divs
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY ticker