British American Tobacco (BAT) Kenya Plc, Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Plc, and Stanbic Holdings Plc are among the companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) that have announced the highest dividends for 2025.
BAT Kenya, Standard Chartered Bank Kenya, and Stanbic lead with dividends of Ksh45, Ksh37, and Ksh18.90 per share, respectively.
Dividends are payments made by a company to its shareholders, typically as a reward for investing in the company. They are usually paid from the company’s profits.
BAT Kenya’s Board of Directors proposed a final dividend of Ksh45 per share for the financial year ending December 31, 2024.
The dividend will be recommended for approval by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for June 25, 2025.
This proposal comes despite the tobacco manufacturer reporting a 19% decline in pre-tax profit, which fell to Ksh4.48 billion, down from Ksh5.57 billion the previous year.
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya, on its part, announced a record dividend payout of Ksh13.9 billion after posting a 45% increase in full-year profit, reaching Ksh20.1 billion for the period ended December 2024.
The bank declared a final dividend of Ksh37 per share, bringing the total dividend payout to Ksh45 per share, including an interim dividend of Ksh8 per share paid in October 2024.
The 45% growth in net profit was largely driven by higher income, which rose 21% to Ksh17.4 billion from Ksh12.4 billion.
Additionally, non-interest income grew the fastest—up 40% to Ksh17.4 billion from Ksh12.4 billion—while net interest income rose 13% to Ksh33.3 billion from Ksh29.3 billion.
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List of dividends announced by NSE-listed companies for 2025
Stanbic Holdings, in March, raised its dividend payout by 35.1% to Ksh8.1 billion after posting a 12.8% increase in net profit for the year ended December 2024.
The lender’s net profit rose to Ksh13.71 billion, up from Ksh12.16 billion the previous year, enabling Stanbic to increase its dividend per share for the third consecutive year.
The latest profit growth prompted the Stanbic Board to recommend raising the total dividend per share to Ksh20.74, up from Ksh15.35 the previous year.
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This includes a final dividend of Ksh18.90 per share, amounting to Ksh7.47 billion, and an interim dividend of Ksh1.84 per share (worth Ksh727.3 million) paid in September 2024.
Other companies that have announced dividends to be paid in 2025 include Jubilee Holdings Plc (Ksh11.50), Kakuzi Plc (Ksh8), Diamond Trust Bank (Ksh7), BOC Kenya Plc (Ksh6.15), Equity Group Holdings (Ksh4.25), NCBA Group Plc (Ksh3.25), and Crown Paints Kenya Plc (Ksh3)
Total Energies Plc (Ksh1.92), I&M Group Plc (Ksh1.70), Liberty Kenya Holdings Plc (Ksh1.60), Co-operative Bank Kenya (Ksh1.50), Absa Bank Kenya (Ksh1.55), and KCB Group Plc (Ksh1.50) have also announced dividends.
Safaricom profit
Telecommunications giant Safaricom PLC, while releasing its financial results for the year ending March 31, 2025, announced it will pay out Ksh48.08 billion in dividends to its shareholders.
This includes a final dividend of 65 cents per ordinary share, in addition to the interim dividend of 55 cents per share already disbursed earlier in the year.
Safaricom announced the dividend after reporting a Ksh69.8 billion net income and an 11.2% increase in total revenue, reaching Ksh388.7 billion for the period under review.
The net income represented a 10.8 per cent increase compared to the previous financial period.
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