IMBBF Imperial Brands PLC — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Imperial Brands PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, imports, markets, and sells tobacco and tobacco-related products in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Asia, Australasia, and internationally. It offers a range of cigarettes, tobacco accessories, vapour, heated tobacco, and oral nicotine. The company sells its products under various brands, including JPS, Davidoff, Gauloises, West, Winston, Kool, Lambert & Butler, P&S, Fortuna, Nobel, News, Backwoods, Champion, Golden Virginia, FINE, Rizla, Blu, Pulze, Skruf, and Zone. In addition, it engages in the distribution of tobacco and NGP products for tobacco and NGP product manufacturers; and various non-tobacco and NGP products and services. Further, the company is involved in the management of a golf course; distribution of pharmaceuticals, POS software, and published materials and other products; printing and publishing activities; and provision of long haul transportation, industrial parcel and express delivery, pharmaceutical products logistics, advertising, payment, freight forwarding, and support management services, as well as owns the trademarks; and retails its products. Additionally, it engages in edition and distribution of books and non-periodical publication. Furthermore, the company is involved in research and development of e-vapour products. The company was formerly known as Imperial Tobacco Group PLC and changed its name to Imperial Brands PLC in February 2016. Imperial Brands PLC was founded in 1636 and is based in Bristol, the United Kingdom.
Dividend Snapshot
Research Scores
Scores describe this security's published financial data on a 0–100 scale using the formulas on our methodology pages. They are the same for every reader, are not a probability or a forecast, and are not a recommendation. Past dividend growth does not guarantee future increases. Report a data error.
Not Rated
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for IMBBF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 75% (FY2025) | 57 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 54% (FY2025) | 94 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | Net debt / EBITDA 2.0x (FY2025) | 85 | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 7.9x (FY2025) | 84 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 16 years of uninterrupted regular payments | 78 | 20% |
| Earnings stability | Net income positive in 5 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2021–FY2025) | 100 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Growth Score is built for IMBBF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR 1.8% (2020–2025) | 43 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 3 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 45 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 75% (FY2025) | 43 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR 14.7% (FY2022–FY2025) | 100 | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | Revenue CAGR -0.4% (FY2022–FY2025) | 38 | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR 2.8% (2015–2025) | 54 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
Key Metrics
Current Yield
5.92%
At the Oct 29, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$2.2744
Declared May 12, 2026
The latest declared regular dividend scaled to a full year by how often it's paid (for semi-annual payers, the latest two payments), adjusted for stock splits. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00. Special dividends are excluded.Frequency
Q Quarterly
How often the dividend is paid, read from the dates of recent payments: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.RSI (14)
64
As of Oct 29, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$31.58 – $46.92
Closes through Oct 23, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year, showing where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio (TTM)
74.17%
12 months to Mar 31, 2026 (Q2 FY2026)
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
16
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
5.62
Price as of Oct 25, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
How often a record like this ends in a cut
IMBBF has raised its annual dividend in 10 separate years since July 2010, which ranks 1096 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. No year in that span saw the annual total fall by more than a fifth.
Of the 878 companies we track with 10 to 24 years of increases, 661 — 75 per cent — also have at least one year in which the dividend fell by more than 20 per cent. Across every company with twenty years of comparable history, only 277 of 1078 (26 per cent) have never cut. A long record of increases is common; a record with no cut anywhere in it is not.
Measured from annual totals using split-adjusted amounts, comparing only consecutive years with the same number of payments — a stock split and a payment shifting across a year boundary both look like cuts otherwise. The current year is excluded as incomplete. How we measure a cut, and what the corrections change. Figures are for information only, not a view on any security.
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
IMBBF's dividend yield fell from 6.16% to 5.92% over the past ~90 days (-0.24 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and -0.24 pp from the share price ($36.90 on Aug 03, 2026 → $38.40 on Oct 29, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 272 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), IMBBF's current yield is higher than approximately 58% of them. Our stored price history for IMBBF covers the past 13 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.5686 Q | Regular | May 12, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 |
| $0.5670 Q | Regular | N/A | Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 |
| $0.5600 Q | Regular | May 12, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 |
| $0.5411 Q | Regular | May 14, 2025 | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 |
| $0.5311 Q | Regular | May 14, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 |
| $0.5421 Q | Regular | Oct 08, 2024 | Aug 22, 2025 | Aug 22, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 |
| $0.5414 Q | Regular | Oct 08, 2024 | May 23, 2025 | May 23, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 |
| $0.6858 Q | Regular | May 15, 2024 | Feb 21, 2025 | Feb 21, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 |
| $0.6896 Q | Regular | May 15, 2024 | Nov 29, 2024 | Nov 29, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| $0.2962 Q | Regular | May 15, 2024 | Aug 23, 2024 | Aug 23, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 |
| $0.2855 Q | Regular | May 15, 2024 | May 23, 2024 | May 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 |
| $0.6521 Q | Regular | Nov 14, 2023 | Feb 15, 2024 | Feb 16, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 |
| $0.6456 Q | Regular | Nov 14, 2023 | Nov 23, 2023 | Nov 24, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 |
| $0.2753 Q | Regular | May 16, 2023 | Aug 17, 2023 | Aug 18, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 |
| $0.2661 Q | Regular | May 16, 2023 | May 25, 2023 | May 26, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 |
| $0.5925 Q | Regular | Nov 15, 2022 | Feb 16, 2023 | Feb 17, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 |
| $0.5950 Q | Regular | Nov 15, 2022 | Nov 24, 2022 | Nov 25, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 |
| $0.2546 Q | Regular | May 17, 2022 | Aug 18, 2022 | Aug 19, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 |
| $0.2676 Q | Regular | May 17, 2022 | May 26, 2022 | May 27, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 |
| $0.6603 Q | Regular | Nov 16, 2021 | Feb 17, 2022 | Feb 18, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 |
| $0.6463 Q | Regular | Nov 16, 2021 | Nov 25, 2021 | Nov 26, 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 |
| $0.2879 Q | Regular | May 18, 2021 | Aug 19, 2021 | Aug 20, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 |
| $0.2985 Q | Regular | May 18, 2021 | May 27, 2021 | May 28, 2021 | Jun 30, 2021 |
| $0.6695 Q | Regular | Nov 17, 2020 | Feb 18, 2021 | Feb 19, 2021 | Mar 31, 2021 |
| $0.6422 Q | Regular | N/A | Nov 26, 2020 | Nov 27, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 |
| $0.2750 Q | Regular | N/A | Aug 20, 2020 | Aug 21, 2020 | Sep 30, 2020 |
| $0.2570 Q | Regular | N/A | May 28, 2020 | May 29, 2020 | Jun 30, 2020 |
| $0.9275 Q | Regular | N/A | Feb 20, 2020 | Feb 21, 2020 | Mar 31, 2020 |
| $0.9306 Q | Regular | N/A | Nov 21, 2019 | Nov 22, 2019 | Dec 31, 2019 |
| $0.3832 Q | Regular | May 08, 2019 | Aug 22, 2019 | Aug 23, 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 |
| $0.3962 Q | Regular | May 08, 2019 | May 23, 2019 | May 24, 2019 | Jun 28, 2019 |
| $0.8553 Q | Regular | N/A | Feb 21, 2019 | Feb 22, 2019 | Mar 29, 2019 |
| $0.6546 Q | Regular | N/A | Nov 22, 2018 | Nov 23, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 |
| $0.3648 Q | Regular | May 09, 2018 | Aug 23, 2018 | Aug 24, 2018 | Sep 28, 2018 |
| $0.3805 Q | Regular | Apr 12, 2018 | May 24, 2018 | May 25, 2018 | Jun 29, 2018 |
| $0.8298 Q | Regular | Nov 07, 2017 | Feb 22, 2018 | Feb 23, 2018 | Mar 29, 2018 |
| $0.7852 Q | Regular | Nov 02, 2017 | Nov 16, 2017 | Nov 17, 2017 | Dec 29, 2017 |
| $0.3331 Q | Regular | N/A | Aug 17, 2017 | Aug 18, 2017 | Sep 29, 2017 |
| $0.3363 Q | Regular | N/A | May 18, 2017 | May 19, 2017 | Jun 30, 2017 |
| $0.6762 Q | Regular | Nov 08, 2016 | Feb 16, 2017 | Feb 17, 2017 | Mar 31, 2017 |
| $0.6728 Q | Regular | Oct 04, 2016 | Nov 17, 2016 | Nov 18, 2016 | Dec 30, 2016 |
| $0.3089 Q | Regular | May 04, 2016 | Aug 18, 2016 | Aug 19, 2016 | Sep 30, 2016 |
| $0.3433 Q | Regular | Apr 05, 2016 | May 19, 2016 | May 20, 2016 | Jun 30, 2016 |
| $0.7158 Q | Regular | Nov 03, 2015 | Feb 04, 2016 | Feb 05, 2016 | Mar 31, 2016 |
| $0.7509 Q | Regular | Oct 02, 2015 | Nov 19, 2015 | Nov 20, 2015 | Dec 31, 2015 |
| $0.3298 Q | Regular | May 06, 2015 | Aug 27, 2015 | Aug 28, 2015 | Sep 30, 2015 |
| $0.3272 S | Regular | May 06, 2015 | May 28, 2015 | May 29, 2015 | Jun 30, 2015 |
| $1.3546 S | Regular | Nov 04, 2014 | Jan 15, 2015 | Jan 16, 2015 | Feb 17, 2015 |
| $0.6647 S | Regular | May 07, 2014 | Jul 16, 2014 | Jul 18, 2014 | Aug 19, 2014 |
| $1.3277 S | Regular | Nov 05, 2013 | Jan 15, 2014 | Jan 17, 2014 | Feb 17, 2014 |
| $0.5344 S | Regular | Mar 01, 2013 | Jul 17, 2013 | Jul 19, 2013 | Aug 16, 2013 |
| $1.1820 S | Regular | Oct 30, 2012 | Jan 16, 2013 | Jan 18, 2013 | Feb 18, 2013 |
| $0.4956 S | Regular | Mar 14, 2012 | Jul 18, 2012 | Jul 20, 2012 | Aug 17, 2012 |
| $0.7444 S | Regular | N/A | Jan 18, 2012 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3122 S | Regular | N/A | Jul 20, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.6667 S | Regular | N/A | Jan 19, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2700 S | Regular | N/A | Jul 21, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
Peer Comparison
Selected Tobacco dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPB | Turning Point Brands, Inc. | 0.48% | 8.4% | 7 yrs | 74 |
| MO | Altria Group, Inc. | 6.08% | 4.1% | 16 yrs | 64 |
| GDNGY | PT Gudang Garam Tbk | 5.00% | N/A | N/A | 62 |
| IMBBY | Imperial Brands PLC | 5.72% | 2.3% | 0 yrs | 61 |
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IMBBF dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Imperial Brands PLC pay a dividend?
Yes. Imperial Brands PLC (IMBBF) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $2.27 per share, a yield of approximately 5.92%.
What is Imperial Brands PLC's dividend yield?
Imperial Brands PLC's dividend yield is approximately 5.92%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Imperial Brands PLC pay dividends?
Imperial Brands PLC pays dividends quarterly — 4 times per year.
How long has Imperial Brands PLC paid dividends?
Imperial Brands PLC has 16 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Data updated Oct 29, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.