Duplicates in Stock Dividend Corporate Actions

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I noticed that the Corporate Actions API sometimes returns duplicate entries for Stock Dividends. The Screenshot below shows several duplicate entries, which differ only in their id and process_date fields.

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Are these duplicates simply due to records being created twice e.g. (1) on the ex_date and (2) on the payable_date, or do they represent distinct actions? Is it correct/safe to simply drop duplicates based on ex_date and symbol?

Thanks in advance!

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Thank you for reporting this issue. All the above duplicates were fixed (one of each duplicate was removed). Moreover, we’re going to introduce the check you suggested to always have a single ex_date, symbol combination.

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