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Symbols with the most ex-dividend dates in the trailing year

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 2026-11-07, from Weekly Dividend ETFs: How the Payouts Work.

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Symbols with the most ex-dividend dates in the trailing year — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerex_dates_12mavg_days_between
SATA1083.2
QLDY1053.5
AMYY537
AZYY537
BBYY537
BLOX537
COYY537
FBYY537
HOYY537
IOYY537
MAAY537
MAGY537
Rows × columns
12 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Symbols with the most ex-dividend dates in the trailing year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 12 distinct values (AMYY, AZYY, BBYY…)
ex_dates_12m number 53 to 108
avg_days_between number 3.2 to 7

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,
    count()                                                                                   AS ex_dates_12m,
    round(dateDiff('day', min(ex_dividend_date), max(ex_dividend_date)) / (count() - 1), 1)   AS avg_days_between
FROM
(
    SELECT DISTINCT
        ticker,
        ex_dividend_date
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date >= today() - 365
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
)
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING ex_dates_12m >= 40
ORDER BY ex_dates_12m DESC, ticker ASC
LIMIT 12
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