Hester Biosciences dividend 2026, record dates and history
NSE: HESTERBIOBSE: 524669Pharmaceuticals & BiotechnologySmall Cap
Share price at the NSE close on 28 Oct 2026. Previous close ₹2,152.90.
28 Oct: open ₹2,163.80, high ₹2,260.00, low ₹2,140.10
- Next results date: the board meets on 5 Nov 2026 to consider: financial results. The notice · Results calendar
- 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
- ₹1,909 Cr1,322nd 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
- 14.02
- P/E without one-offsPrice to earnings without one-off items. Market cap divided by core profit: 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, less one-off items (exceptional items and the result of businesses sold or closed). Shown where the one-off items move that profit by more than a tenth. The last twelve months' profit includes ₹88 crore of one-off items, the largest of them in the quarter to Jun 2026.
- 39.85
- 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
- 5.30
- Dividend yieldDividend yield. Dividends paid per share in the twelve months to the day, as a percentage of the day's share price.
- 0.49%
- 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.
- 40.4%
- ROE without one-offsReturn on equity without one-off items. Core profit, 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 less one-off items (exceptional items and the result of businesses sold or closed), as a percentage of the same net worth as the return on equity. Shown where the one-off items move that profit by more than a tenth. The last twelve months' profit includes ₹88 crore of one-off items, the largest of them in the quarter to Jun 2026.
- 14.2%
- 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.
- 11.7%
- 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.
- 0.51
- Volume, NSEVolume. Shares traded on the last trading day. Volume in the glossary
- 3,010
Hester Biosciences has no new dividend announced. Its latest, ₹11.00 a share, went ex on 14 Jul 2026, also its record date.
Next dividend, ex-date and record date
Hester Biosciences 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 12 years running, from the year to Mar 2015Paid years running. Consecutive years ending here in which a dividend was declared, counted from 2007.
- Raised 2 years 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 | ₹11.00 | ₹11.00 | |||||||||||
| 2025 | ₹7.00 | ₹7.00 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | ₹6.00 | ₹6.00 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | ₹8.00 | ₹8.00 | |||||||||||
| 2022 | ₹10.00 | ₹10.00 | |||||||||||
| 2021 | ₹10.00 | ₹10.00 | |||||||||||
| 2020 | ₹6.60 | ₹6.60 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | ₹7.00 | ₹7.00 |
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.
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 glossaryHester Biosciences dividend history
Every payment with its ex-date and record date, year by year.
2026
- Jul14Tue
₹11.00FinalFinal 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 and record date 14 Jul 2026 · announced 15 May 2026
0.43%of the price
2025
- Aug6Wed
₹7.00Final
Ex-date and record date 6 Aug 2025 · announced 9 May 2025
0.35%of the price
2024
- Aug22Thu
₹6.00Final
Ex-date and record date 22 Aug 2024 · announced 10 May 2024
0.24%of the price
2023
- Sep13Wed
₹8.00Final
Ex-date 13 Sep 2023 · books closed to 20 Sep 2023 · announced 17 May 2023
0.46%of the price
2022
- Aug11Thu
₹10.00Final
Ex-date 11 Aug 2022 · books closed to 23 Aug 2022 · announced 20 May 2022
0.44%of the price
2021
- Aug5Thu
₹10.00Final
Ex-date 5 Aug 2021 · books closed to 17 Aug 2021 · announced 8 Jun 2021
0.42%of the price
2020
- Aug27Thu
₹6.60Final
Ex-date 27 Aug 2020 · books closed to 4 Sep 2020 · announced 26 Jun 2020
0.42%of the price
2019
- Jul18Thu
₹7.00Final
Ex-date 18 Jul 2019 · books closed to 31 Jul 2019
0.40%of the price
2018₹10.00 a share in 3 payments
- Nov9Fri
₹2.00Interim
Ex-date 9 Nov 2018 · record date 12 Nov 2018 · announced 29 Oct 2018
0.17%of the price - Aug30Thu
₹2.00Interim
Ex-date 30 Aug 2018 · record date 31 Aug 2018 · announced 10 Aug 2018
0.16%of the price - Aug2Thu
₹6.00Final
Ex-date 2 Aug 2018 · books closed to 10 Aug 2018 · announced 14 May 2018
0.52%of the price
2017₹6.30 a share in 2 payments
- Nov16Thu
₹4.00Interim
Ex-date 16 Nov 2017 · record date 17 Nov 2017 · announced 9 Nov 2017
0.34%of the price - Jul20Thu
₹2.30Final
Ex-date 20 Jul 2017 · books closed to 28 Jul 2017 · announced 8 May 2017
0.21%of the price
2016₹7.10 a share in 3 payments
- Nov3Thu
₹3.00Interim
Ex-date 3 Nov 2016 · record date 4 Nov 2016
0.39%of the price - Jul21Thu
₹1.10Final
Ex-date 21 Jul 2016 · books closed to 29 Jul 2016
0.15%of the price - Mar17Thu
₹3.00Interim
Ex-date 17 Mar 2016 · record date 18 Mar 2016
0.67%of the price
2015
- Sep10Thu
₹3.10Final
Ex-date 10 Sep 2015 · books closed to 15 Sep 2015
0.53%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.