Next declared ex dividend dates and the cash at stake per contract

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 Trading Options Inside an IRA: How It Works.

Rows × columns

2 × 4

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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Formats

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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.

SELECT
    ticker                                                           AS symbol,
    formatDateTime(min(ex_dividend_date), '%b %e')                   AS ex_date_label,
    round(toFloat64(argMin(cash_amount, ex_dividend_date)) * 100, 2) AS dividend_per_contract_usd,
    dateDiff('day', today(), min(ex_dividend_date))                  AS days_to_ex_date
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today()
  AND ex_dividend_date <= today() + 200
  AND ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'T', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'XOM', 'CVX')
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY dividend_per_contract_usd DESC