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.
| month_label | raises | companies |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 8287 | 1872 |
| Dec | 6573 | 1971 |
| Feb | 4880 | 1623 |
| Jun | 3877 | 1598 |
| Mar | 3123 | 1464 |
| Sep | 2750 | 1330 |
| Nov | 2115 | 909 |
| Jul | 2075 | 818 |
| May | 1928 | 827 |
| Oct | 1865 | 732 |
| Apr | 1817 | 768 |
| Aug | 1428 | 675 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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.
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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