Vedanta shares jump over 3% after Rs 5 interim dividend announcement

Shares of Vedanta rose 3.48% to Rs 261.90 on Friday after the mining major announced its first interim dividend of Rs 5 per share for the ongoing financial year 2027, with a total payout of Rs 1,955 crore.

The dividend announcement marks the company's first since its demerger into five entities earlier this year.

The company has fixed October 14 as the record date for the dividend. Under the T+1 settlement system, October 13 will effectively be the last day to purchase shares to qualify for the payout.

Vedanta announces first dividend after demerger

The dividend announcement comes after Vedanta demerged its businesses into five entities, with Vedanta Aluminium Metal, Vedanta Power, Vedanta Oil and Gas, and Vedanta Iron and Steel spun off in June.

The restructuring has changed the dividend outlook for the residual Vedanta business, which houses Hindustan Zinc, Zinc International and the base metals business. With several large cash-generating businesses spun off, future dividend payouts could be lower in absolute per-share terms.

Sunny Agrawal, Head of Fundamental Research at SBI Securities, had said Vedanta would likely remain a dividend-paying entity, but its absolute dividend per share could decline structurally following the demerger.

Post-demerger, the residual company's dividend payouts will be driven primarily by its 60.71% stake in Hindustan Zinc, with earnings influenced by London Metal Exchange (LME) zinc and silver prices.

Vedanta's dividend track record

Vedanta has declared 50 dividends since July 23, 2001. Earlier this year, the company paid an interim dividend of Rs 11 per share in March.

In 2025, it announced two interim dividends of Rs 16 per share in August and Rs 7 per share in June. In 2024, the company declared four dividends totalling Rs 43.5 per share.

Sunny Agrawal said investors who previously viewed Vedanta as a single, high-yield investment would now need to own a basket of the demerged entities to achieve similar aggregate yields.

“Over time, improved capital allocation and governance across standalone entities could support healthy group-level cash returns, but dividends will be more volatile, more cycle-dependent, and more business-specific, requiring an active allocation strategy rather than reliance on Vedanta,” the analyst said.

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