Average days from record date to pay date, eight large dividend payers
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 2026-09-26, from Street Name vs Holder of Record: Cede & Co.
| ticker | days_record_to_pay | payments |
|---|---|---|
| XOM | 25.8 | 9 |
| PG | 25.1 | 9 |
| MSFT | 22.6 | 9 |
| CVX | 22.1 | 9 |
| CSCO | 19.2 | 9 |
| KO | 16.9 | 10 |
| JNJ | 14 | 9 |
| AAPL | 3 | 9 |
- Rows × columns
- 8 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 8 distinct values (AAPL, CSCO, CVX…) | |
days_record_to_pay |
number | 3 to 25.8 | |
payments |
number | 9 to 10 |
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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SELECT
sym AS ticker,
round(avg(days_to_pay), 1) AS days_record_to_pay,
count() AS payments
FROM
(
SELECT
any(ticker) AS sym,
max(dateDiff('day', record_date, pay_date)) AS days_to_pay
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'XOM', 'CVX', 'CSCO')
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2024-06-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < today()
AND cash_amount > 0
AND pay_date > record_date
AND dateDiff('day', record_date, pay_date) <= 90
GROUP BY id
)
GROUP BY sym
ORDER BY days_record_to_pay DESC
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