CESC dividend 2026, record dates and history
NSE: CESCBSE: 500084PowerSmall Cap
Share price at the NSE close on 27 Oct 2026. Previous close ₹124.75.
27 Oct: open ₹125.00, high ₹127.40, low ₹122.15
- Market capMarket capitalisation. Share price times the number of shares: what the whole company is worth at the day's price. The rank is by average market value over the six months to Jun 2026, among listed companies. Market capitalisation: how it is worked out
- ₹16,364 Cr326th largest listed
- P/EPrice to earnings, trailing. Market cap divided by the profit of the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, after the share of the other owners of its subsidiaries: what investors pay for each rupee of a year's profit. Price to earnings, trailing: how it is worked out
- 10.55
- P/BPrice to book. Market cap divided by the net worth that belongs to the company's own shareholders, its assets less everything it owes and less the other owners' share of its subsidiaries, on its latest balance sheet. Price to book: how it is worked out
- 1.31
- Dividend yieldDividend yield. Dividends paid per share in the twelve months to the day, as a percentage of the day's share price.
- 4.86%
- ROEReturn on equity. Profit over the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, as a percentage of their net worth, the money they have in the business. Net worth is the average of the latest balance sheet and the one a year before it.
- 12.6%
- ROCEReturn on capital employed. Operating profit after depreciation (revenue less operating expenses and depreciation, without other income and one-off items) as a percentage of all the money the business runs on: the whole group's net worth, the other owners of its subsidiaries included, plus borrowings. Lease liabilities are not counted: the results filings do not state them. The profit is over the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly); net worth and borrowings are on the latest balance sheet.
- 6.6%
- Debt to equityDebt to equity. Borrowings divided by the whole group's net worth, the other owners of its subsidiaries included: rupees borrowed for each rupee of equity in the business. Lease liabilities are not counted: the results filings do not state them. From the balance sheet at the end of Mar 2026.
- 1.62
- Volume, NSEVolume. Shares traded on the last trading day; delivery is the part buyers kept rather than sold again the same day. Volume in the glossary
- 53,52,05164.9% delivered
CESC has no new dividend announced. Its latest, ₹6.00 a share, went ex on 19 Aug 2026, also its record date.
Next dividend, ex-date and record date
CESC dividend calendar
Each payment in the month it went ex, as declared, ₹ a share at the time. Years running counted to the year to Mar 2026.
- Paid 19 years running, from the year to Mar 2008Paid years running. Consecutive years ending here in which a dividend was declared, counted from 2007.
- Raised 1 year runningRaised years running. Consecutive years ending here in which the dividend per share, on today's share count, was higher than the year before.
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | In the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ₹6.00 | ₹6.00 | |||||||||||
| 2025 | ₹4.50 | ₹6.00 | ₹10.50 | ||||||||||
| 2024 | ₹4.50 | ₹4.50 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | ₹4.50 | ₹4.50 | |||||||||||
| 2022 | ₹4.50 | ₹4.50 | |||||||||||
| 2021 | ₹45.00 | Not added up | |||||||||||
| 2020 | ₹20.00 | ₹20.00 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | ₹17.50 | ₹17.50 |
Interim or final dividendSpecial dividendNone that month
Dividends by year
Per share, for the year it was paid for: a dividend declared with a year's results counts in that year, even when it goes ex after the year ends.CESC stock split history
Dividend per share, ₹, restated for later splits and bonuses
Dividend per share. The dividends declared for the year, each restated to today's share count by the splits and bonuses after its own ex-date, added up. Dividend per share in the glossaryShare of profit paid out, %, where the year's results are on record
Dividend payout. Dividends per share on the year end's share count × shares in issue ÷ profit to the company's own shareholders for the year × 100, on the consolidated accounts, which cover the group with its subsidiaries; empty where that year's results are not on record, show a loss or have no share count, and for a row that is not a full year. Dividend payout in the glossaryCESC dividend history
Every payment with its ex-date and record date, year by year.
2026
- Aug19Wed
₹6.00Interim
Ex-date and record date 19 Aug 2026 · announced 13 Aug 2026
3.57%of the price
2025₹10.50 a share in 2 payments
- Oct27Mon
₹6.00Interim
Ex-date and record date 27 Oct 2025 · announced 17 Oct 2025
3.25%of the price - Jan16Thu
₹4.50Interim
Ex-date and record date 16 Jan 2025 · announced 10 Jan 2025
2.92%of the price
2024
- Feb1Thu
₹4.50Interim
Ex-date and record date 1 Feb 2024 · announced 19 Jan 2024
3.14%of the price
2023
- Feb24Fri
₹4.50Interim
Ex-date and record date 24 Feb 2023 · announced 14 Feb 2023
5.81%of the price
2022
- Jan24Mon
₹4.50Interim
Ex-date 24 Jan 2022 · record date 25 Jan 2022 · announced 13 Jan 2022
4.95%of the price
2021
- Jan22Fri
₹45.00Interim
Ex-date 22 Jan 2021 · record date 25 Jan 2021 · announced 13 Jan 2021
6.35%of the price
2020
- Feb18Tue
₹20.00Interim
Ex-date 18 Feb 2020 · record date 20 Feb 2020
2.85%of the price
2019
- Feb14Thu
₹17.50Interim
Ex-date 14 Feb 2019 · record date 15 Feb 2019 · announced 5 Feb 2019
2.53%of the price
2018
- Mar8Thu
₹12.00Interim
Ex-date 8 Mar 2018 · record date 9 Mar 2018
1.24%of the price
2017
- Feb23Thu
₹10.00Interim
Ex-date 23 Feb 2017 · record date 27 Feb 2017
1.15%of the price
2016
- Mar17Thu
₹10.00Interim
Ex-date 17 Mar 2016 · record date 19 Mar 2016
2.09%of the price
2015
- Jul22Wed
₹9.00FinalFinal dividend. Called final by its date: the company did not say which kind it was, and it went ex within six months after the company's year end, the time in which the annual general meeting that declares the final dividend must be held. Final dividend in the glossary
Ex-date 22 Jul 2015 · books closed to 31 Jul 2015
1.52%of the price
2014
- Jun18Wed
₹8.00Final
Ex-date 18 Jun 2014 · books closed to 30 Jun 2014
1.28%of the price
2013
- Jul10Wed
₹7.00Final
Ex-date 10 Jul 2013 · books closed to 26 Jul 2013
1.93%of the price
2012
- Jul11Wed
₹5.00Final
Ex-date 11 Jul 2012 · books closed to 27 Jul 2012
1.63%of the price
2011
- Jul14Thu
₹4.00Final
Ex-date 14 Jul 2011 · books closed to 29 Jul 2011
1.18%of the price
2010
- Jul8Thu
₹4.00Final
Ex-date 8 Jul 2010 · books closed to 23 Jul 2010
1.05%of the price
2009
- Jul9Thu
₹4.00Final
Ex-date 9 Jul 2009
1.48%of the price
2008
- Jul17Thu
40% of face value (₹4.00 a share)Final
Ex-date 17 Jul 2008 · books closed to 30 Jul 2008
1.29%of the price
2007
- Jul12Thu
35% of face value (₹3.50 a share)Final
Ex-date 12 Jul 2007 · books closed to 27 Jul 2007
0.84%of the price
Grouped by the calendar year each went ex, so a year's total here can differ from the year it was paid for above. Of the price is the dividend as a share of the close on the session before its ex-date. A book closure is the run of days the company's register is frozen to settle who is paid; a record date is the one-day form of it.