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How US dividends were scheduled in 2026, by payment cadence (Jan 1 - Jul 13)

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 2026-07-15, from What Is a Special Dividend? (With Examples).

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How US dividends were scheduled in 2026, by payment cadence (Jan 1 - Jul 13) — 5 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
schedulepayments
Special (one-time)1189
Annual1547
Semi-annual3016
Quarterly9121
Monthly10733
Rows × columns
5 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for How US dividends were scheduled in 2026, by payment cadence (Jan 1 - Jul 13), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
schedule text 5 distinct values (Annual, Monthly, Quarterly…)
payments number 1,189 to 10,733

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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    multiIf(frequency = 0, 'Special (one-time)',
            frequency = 1, 'Annual',
            frequency = 2, 'Semi-annual',
            frequency = 4, 'Quarterly',
            frequency = 12, 'Monthly', 'Other') AS schedule,
    count() AS payments
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ex_dividend_date BETWEEN '2026-01-01' AND '2026-07-13'
  AND frequency IN (0, 1, 2, 4, 12)
GROUP BY frequency
ORDER BY frequency

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