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KO: dividend per share against the realised opening drop, every ex-date 2021 to 2025

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.

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KO: dividend per share against the realised opening drop, every ex-date 2021 to 2025 — 20 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
ex_dateex_date_labeldividend_per_sharedrop_at_open
2021-03-12March 12, 20210.420.29
2021-06-14June 14, 20210.420.47
2021-09-14September 14, 20210.420.15
2021-11-30November 30, 20210.420.98
2022-03-14March 14, 20220.44-0.05
2022-06-14June 14, 20220.440.61
2022-09-15September 15, 20220.440.39
2022-11-30November 30, 20220.440.47
2023-03-16March 16, 20230.460.34
2023-06-15June 15, 20230.460.25
2023-09-14September 14, 20230.460.2
2023-11-30November 30, 20230.460.27
2024-03-14March 14, 20240.4850.54
2024-06-14June 14, 20240.4850.61
2024-09-13September 13, 20240.4850.39
2024-11-29November 29, 20240.4850.41
2025-03-14March 14, 20250.511.11
2025-06-13June 13, 20250.510.47
2025-09-15September 15, 20250.510.33
2025-12-01December 1, 20250.510.52
Rows × columns
20 × 4
Period covered
to
Computed
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

Column definitions for KO: dividend per share against the realised opening drop, every ex-date 2021 to 2025, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ex_date date 2021-03-12 to 2025-12-01
ex_date_label text 20 distinct values
dividend_per_share number 0.42 to 0.51
drop_at_open number -0.05 to 1.11 US dollars

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
prices AS
(
    SELECT
        date,
        open_px,
        any(close_px) OVER (ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING) AS prior_close
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            date,
            toFloat64(max(open))  AS open_px,
            toFloat64(max(close)) AS close_px
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'KO'
          AND date >= '2020-12-01'
          AND date <  '2026-01-01'
        GROUP BY date
    )
),
ex_days AS
(
    SELECT
        ex_dividend_date            AS ex_date,
        toFloat64(max(cash_amount)) AS dividend
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker = 'KO'
      AND ex_dividend_date >= '2021-01-01'
      AND ex_dividend_date <  '2026-01-01'
      AND cash_amount > 0
    GROUP BY ex_dividend_date
)
SELECT
    toString(e.ex_date)                 AS ex_date,
    concat(monthName(e.ex_date), ' ', toString(toDayOfMonth(e.ex_date)), ', ', toString(toYear(e.ex_date))) AS ex_date_label,
    round(e.dividend, 4)                AS dividend_per_share,
    round(p.prior_close - p.open_px, 2) AS drop_at_open
FROM ex_days AS e
INNER JOIN prices AS p ON p.date = e.ex_date
WHERE p.prior_close > 0
ORDER BY e.ex_date

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