500% Dividend Alert: Infosys declares Rs 25 dividend; FY26 payout jumps to Rs 48 per share, check record date

Infosys Final Dividend Announced: Infosys, the country's second largest IT firm recommended a final dividend of Rs 25 per equity share -- a 500 per cent payout given the face value of Rs 5 per equity share for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, taking the total dividend payout for FY26 to Rs 48 per share.

Record date

The company said the final dividend, announced on April 23, 2026, will be paid to shareholders whose names appear on the register as of June 10, 2026, which has been fixed as the record date. The payment is scheduled for June 25, 2026.

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This comes after an interim dividend of Rs 23 per share that was paid in November 2025, taking the total payout for the year to Rs 48 per share.

Higher payout year-on-year

The FY26 dividend marks an increase over the previous financial year, when the company had declared a total dividend of Rs 43 per share. The latest payout reflects a rise of about 11.6 per cent on a year-on-year basis.

Capital allocation approach

The dividend announcement is in line with the company’s capital allocation strategy, under which it aims to return around 85 per cent of its free cash flow to shareholders over a five-year period. This is done through a mix of dividends and share buybacks.

As part of this approach, the company had also completed a share buyback worth Rs 18,000 crore in late 2025 at a price of Rs 1,800 per share.

Earnings snapshot

IT firm reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 8,501 crore for the quarter ended March 31, marking a sequential rise of 27.8 per cent.

Its revenue grew 2.0 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter basis to Rs 46,402 crore, according to a regulatory filing.

The quarterly revenue almost met the mark compared to analysts' estimates. According to Zee Business research, Infosys was estimated to register quarterly revenue of Rs 46,883 crore.

Infosys reported March-quarter earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of Rs 9,743 crore, up 2.8 per cent over the previous three months.

Its EBIT margin -- a key measure of profitability -- expanded by 20 basis points (bps) to 21 per cent. For the October-Decemer period, the Bengaluru-based IT firm's margin had stood at 20.8 per cent.

The IT giant was expected to registere a quarterly EBIT of Rs 9,885 crore, with a margin of 21.1 per cent.

Earlier on Thursday, the largecap IT stock -- part of Nifty50 and Nifty IT, among other indices -- gained by Rs 25.9, or 2.0 per cent, to close at Rs 1,242.6 apiece on BSE, in a Mumbai market that fell for a second straight session.

At this level, Infosys shares have fallen 24.4 per cent so far this year, compared with a 7.6 per cent decline in the Nifty50 and a 20.5 per cent drop in the Nifty IT.