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Ex-date alignment by payout cadence, since T+1 took effect

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 2026-08-22, from Who Sets the Ex-Dividend Date? Not the Board.

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Ex-date alignment by payout cadence, since T+1 took effect — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
cadencepayout_countex_on_record_pctex_after_pay_pct
Monthly3917699.30
Quarterly3442397.20
Semiannual906796.60
Other cadence84541000
Annual464897.20.1
One-time419489.31.9
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Ex-date alignment by payout cadence, since T+1 took effect, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
cadence text 6 distinct values (Annual, Monthly, One-time…)
payout_count number 4,194 to 39,176 count
ex_on_record_pct number 89.3 to 100 percent
ex_after_pay_pct number 0 to 1.9 percent

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(payout_frequency = 0,  'One-time',
            payout_frequency = 1,  'Annual',
            payout_frequency = 2,  'Semiannual',
            payout_frequency = 4,  'Quarterly',
            payout_frequency = 12, 'Monthly',
            'Other cadence')                               AS cadence,
    count()                                                AS payout_count,
    round(100 * countIf(ex_date = record_on) / count(), 1) AS ex_on_record_pct,
    round(100 * countIf(ex_date > paid_on) / count(), 1)   AS ex_after_pay_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        id,
        any(frequency)        AS payout_frequency,
        any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date,
        any(record_date)      AS record_on,
        any(pay_date)         AS paid_on
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2024-09-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date <  today()
      AND record_date >= toDate('2000-01-01')
      AND pay_date    >= toDate('2000-01-01')
    GROUP BY id
)
GROUP BY cadence
ORDER BY cadence = 'One-time' ASC, payout_count DESC

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