Bharat Electronics Limited will pay its final dividend for FY26 on September 9, 2026. The defence electronics manufacturer confirmed the payout schedule in a filing with stock exchanges on September 8, 2026.

The company declared a final dividend of ₹0.55 per equity share at its 72nd Annual General Meeting held on August 28, 2026. This represents a 55% payout on the face value of ₹1 per share.

Dividend Details

Eligible shareholders will receive the distribution on the specified date. The declaration was made during the annual meeting, following standard corporate governance procedures.

S Sreenivas, Company Secretary of Bharat Electronics, signed the intimation letter addressed to the National Stock Exchange and BSE Limited.

Bharat Electronics Limited shareholders approved a final dividend of ₹0.55 per share and key board appointments at its 72nd Annual General Meeting on August 28, 2026. The meeting also saw the adoption of audited financial statements for FY26.

The total dividend payout for FY26 stands at ₹2.50 per equity share, combining the newly approved final dividend with an interim dividend of ₹1.95 paid earlier in the year. All eight resolutions placed before shareholders were passed with the requisite majority, as confirmed by the scrutinizer report from M/s Thirupal Gorige & Associates LLP.

Voting Participation

The meeting was conducted via Video Conferencing/Other Audio Visual Means. There were 2,671,416 shareholders on the record date of August 21, 2026. Voting participation was driven primarily by the promoter group, which holds 3,737,921,934 shares and voted 100% of its stake via remote e-voting. Public institutional investors polled approximately 91% of their holdings, while public non-institutional participation remained low at under 0.2%.

Key Resolutions Approved

Shareholders approved several ordinary and special resolutions during the proceedings chaired by Chairman & Managing Director Manoj Jain. The key outcomes included:

Board Attendance

All directors attended the meeting except Ms Meera Mohanty and Dr Binoy Kumar Das, Government Nominee Directors, who were unable to attend due to prior commitments. The Board included Independent Directors Pradeep Tripathi, Bharatsinh P Parmar, and Partha Pratim Pathak.

The statutory auditors, M/s Rao & Emmar, and secretarial auditor, M/s Thirupal Gorge & Associates LLP, presented their reports. The Chairman noted that non-compliances highlighted in the Secretarial Audit Report stemmed from delays in appointing the requisite number of Independent Directors, a process governed by government approvals beyond the company’s control.

The Auditor’s Report contained no qualifications or adverse comments on financial transactions for the year ended March 31, 2026.