Pooled opening drop per dollar paid, by calendar year
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 2026-08-14, from Why stocks drop on the ex-dividend date.
| year | payment_count | drop_per_dollar_paid |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 40 | 0.85 |
| 2022 | 40 | 0.93 |
| 2023 | 40 | 0.92 |
| 2024 | 40 | 0.78 |
| 2025 | 40 | 0.81 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 5 distinct values (2021, 2022, 2023…) | |
payment_count |
number | every row is 40 | count |
drop_per_dollar_paid |
number | 0.78 to 0.93 |
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
prices AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
date,
open_px,
any(close_px) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING) AS prior_close
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
date,
toFloat64(max(open)) AS open_px,
toFloat64(max(close)) AS close_px
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('KO','PG','JNJ','PEP','XOM','CVX','MCD','HD','VZ','ABBV')
AND date >= '2020-12-01'
AND date < '2026-01-01'
GROUP BY ticker, date
)
),
ex_days AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
ex_dividend_date AS ex_date,
toFloat64(max(cash_amount)) AS dividend
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker IN ('KO','PG','JNJ','PEP','XOM','CVX','MCD','HD','VZ','ABBV')
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2021-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < '2026-01-01'
AND cash_amount > 0
GROUP BY ticker, ex_dividend_date
)
SELECT
toString(toYear(e.ex_date)) AS year,
count() AS payment_count,
round(sum(p.prior_close - p.open_px) / sum(e.dividend), 2) AS drop_per_dollar_paid
FROM ex_days AS e
INNER JOIN prices AS p ON p.ticker = e.ticker AND p.date = e.ex_date
WHERE p.prior_close > 0
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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