Regular dividends: ex-date before the record date, or on it

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.

Rows × columns

43 × 5

Period covered

2023-01-01 to 2026-07-01

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(toStartOfMonth(ex_date))                       AS month,
    formatDateTime(toStartOfMonth(ex_date), '%b %Y')        AS month_label,
    count()                                                 AS dividend_count,
    round(100 * countIf(ex_date <  record_on) / count(), 1) AS ex_before_record_pct,
    round(100 * countIf(ex_date =  record_on) / count(), 1) AS ex_on_record_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        id,
        any(ex_dividend_date) AS ex_date,
        any(record_date)      AS record_on
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2023-01-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date <  toStartOfMonth(today())
      AND record_date      >= toDate('2000-01-01')
      AND frequency > 0
    GROUP BY id
)
GROUP BY month, month_label
ORDER BY month