New listings landing on a symbol that already had history
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 2026-09-20, from Why Ticker Symbols Break Your Dataset.
| listing_year | listings | symbols_with_earlier_history |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 126 | 32 |
| 2017 | 195 | 48 |
| 2018 | 211 | 41 |
| 2019 | 214 | 39 |
| 2020 | 350 | 64 |
| 2021 | 794 | 113 |
| 2022 | 161 | 30 |
| 2023 | 167 | 47 |
| 2024 | 270 | 86 |
| 2025 | 327 | 54 |
| 2026 | 216 | 34 |
- Rows × columns
- 11 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
listing_year |
text | 11 distinct values (2016, 2017, 2018…) | |
listings |
number | 126 to 794 | |
symbols_with_earlier_history |
number | 30 to 113 |
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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SELECT
toString(toYear(i.listing_day)) AS listing_year,
count() AS listings,
countIf(f.first_print < subtractDays(i.listing_day, 90)) AS symbols_with_earlier_history
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
min(toDate(listing_date)) AS listing_day
FROM global_markets.stocks_ipos
WHERE listing_date >= '2016-01-01'
AND listing_date < today()
GROUP BY ticker
) AS i
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT
ticker,
min(date) AS first_print
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
GROUP BY ticker
) AS f ON f.ticker = i.ticker
GROUP BY listing_year
ORDER BY listing_year
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