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).
| schedule | payments |
|---|---|
| Special (one-time) | 1189 |
| Annual | 1547 |
| Semi-annual | 3016 |
| Quarterly | 9121 |
| Monthly | 10733 |
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- No missing values
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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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