Ex-date to pay-date lag for household payers, December 2025 into January 2026
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 2026-10-16, from Tax-Loss Harvesting Deadlines: The Real Dates.
| ticker | ex_date_label | pay_date_label | days_ex_to_pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPY | Dec 19, 2025 | Jan 30, 2026 | 42 |
| PEP | Dec 5, 2025 | Jan 6, 2026 | 32 |
| XOM | Nov 14, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 | 26 |
| MSFT | Nov 20, 2025 | Dec 11, 2025 | 21 |
| HD | Dec 4, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | 14 |
| JNJ | Nov 25, 2025 | Dec 9, 2025 | 14 |
| KO | Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | 14 |
| MCD | Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | 14 |
| IVV | Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | 3 |
| VOO | Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | 2 |
- Rows × columns
- 10 × 4
- 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 | 10 distinct values (HD, IVV, JNJ…) | |
ex_date_label |
text | 9 distinct values (Dec 1, 2025, Dec 16, 2025, Dec 19, 2025…) | |
pay_date_label |
text | 9 distinct values (Dec 10, 2025, Dec 11, 2025, Dec 15, 2025…) | |
days_ex_to_pay |
number | 2 to 42 |
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
ticker,
formatDateTime(ex_dividend_date, '%b %e, %Y') AS ex_date_label,
formatDateTime(pay_date, '%b %e, %Y') AS pay_date_label,
dateDiff('day', ex_dividend_date, pay_date) AS days_ex_to_pay
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'IVV', 'VOO', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'MSFT', 'XOM', 'VZ', 'MCD', 'PEP', 'HD')
AND pay_date >= '2025-12-01'
AND pay_date <= '2026-01-31'
GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date, pay_date
ORDER BY days_ex_to_pay DESC, ticker
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