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Dividend raises by declaration month: US recurring quarterly payers, July 2015 to July 2026

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 2026-08-03, from When Companies Announce Dividend Raises.

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Dividend raises by declaration month: US recurring quarterly payers, July 2015 to July 2026 — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
month_labelraisescompanies
Jan82871872
Dec65731971
Feb48801623
Jun38771598
Mar31231464
Sep27501330
Nov2115909
Jul2075818
May1928827
Oct1865732
Apr1817768
Aug1428675
Rows × columns
12 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Dividend raises by declaration month: US recurring quarterly payers, July 2015 to July 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month_label text 12 distinct values (Apr, Aug, Dec…)
raises number 1,428 to 8,287
companies number 675 to 1,971

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
WITH quarterly AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           ex_dividend_date,
           round(max(toFloat64(cash_amount)), 4) AS amount,
           max(declaration_date) AS declared
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE distribution_type = 'recurring'
      AND frequency = 4
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND declaration_date > toDate('2015-06-30')
      AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2015-07-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date <= toDate('2026-07-31')
    GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
),
stepped AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           declared,
           amount,
           ex_dividend_date,
           lagInFrame(amount, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY ex_dividend_date ASC
                                       ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prior_amount,
           lagInFrame(ex_dividend_date, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY ex_dividend_date ASC
                                       ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prior_ex_date
    FROM quarterly
)
SELECT formatDateTimeInJodaSyntax(declared, 'MMM') AS month_label,
       count() AS raises,
       uniqExact(ticker) AS companies
FROM stepped
WHERE prior_amount > 0
  AND amount > prior_amount * 1.005
  AND dateDiff('day', prior_ex_date, ex_dividend_date) BETWEEN 45 AND 200
GROUP BY month_label
ORDER BY raises DESC

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