Thirteen big dividend and income funds: last ex-date, cadence, and the implied next ex-date

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WITH hist AS (
    SELECT ticker, ex_dividend_date, cash_amount, frequency,
           dateDiff('day', lagInFrame(ex_dividend_date) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY ex_dividend_date), ex_dividend_date) AS gap_days
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('SCHD', 'VYM', 'VIG', 'DVY', 'SPYD', 'JEPI', 'JEPQ', 'QYLD', 'SPHD', 'NOBL', 'DGRO', 'HDV', 'SPY')
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND ex_dividend_date >= today() - 800
)
SELECT ticker,
       any(frequency) AS payments_per_year,
       toString(max(ex_dividend_date)) AS last_ex_date,
       formatDateTime(max(ex_dividend_date), '%b %e') AS last_ex_label,
       round(argMax(cash_amount, ex_dividend_date), 4) AS last_per_share_usd,
       round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(gap_days, cityHash64(ticker, ex_dividend_date), gap_days BETWEEN 5 AND 200)) AS typical_gap_days,
       toString(max(ex_dividend_date) + toIntervalDay(round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(gap_days, cityHash64(ticker, ex_dividend_date), gap_days BETWEEN 5 AND 200)))) AS implied_next_ex,
       formatDateTime(max(ex_dividend_date) + toIntervalDay(round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(gap_days, cityHash64(ticker, ex_dividend_date), gap_days BETWEEN 5 AND 200))), '%b %e') AS implied_next_label
FROM hist
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING countIf(gap_days BETWEEN 5 AND 200) > 0
ORDER BY implied_next_ex, ticker