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IMBBF Imperial Brands PLC — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates

Other OTC· Quarterly dividend· Common Stock · Consumer Defensive / Tobacco

$38.75 ▲ $0.35(0.91%) as of Oct 30, 2026 06:20 UTC
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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

StatusGrowing
Last Dividend$0.5686Paid Sep 30, 2026
Forward Annual$2.27From the $0.5686 dividend declared May 12, 2026
FrequencyQuarterly
Last Ex-DateAug 21, 2026The most recent ex-dividend date that has already passed.
1-Yr Growth19.6%Annual totals, 2024–2025
10-Yr Growth2.8%Annual totals, 2015–2025

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.

Dividend Safety Score

82/100

Very strong indicators

Complete data

Dividend Growth Score

53/100

Moderate growth record

Complete data

Dividend Value Score

Not Rated

only 40% of the inputs available (60% needed)

DividendRank

64/100

Upper middle of the scale

Partial data

How the Dividend Safety Score is built for IMBBF
Dividend Safety Score inputs, points and weights
InputValuePointsWeight
Earnings payout ratioEarnings payout ratio 75% (FY2025) 57 20%
FCF payout ratioFCF payout ratio 54% (FY2025) 94 25%
Net debt / EBITDANet debt / EBITDA 2.0x (FY2025) 85 15%
Interest coverageInterest coverage 7.9x (FY2025) 84 10%
Dividend record16 years of uninterrupted regular payments 78 20%
Earnings stabilityNet 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
Dividend Growth Score inputs, points and weights
InputValuePointsWeight
5-year dividend growth5-year dividend CAGR 1.8% (2020–2025) 43 25%
Consecutive annual increases3 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) 45 20%
Payout headroomHeadroom 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 growth10-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

5.87%

At the Oct 30, 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)

65

As of Oct 30, 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

S.A.F.E. is a set of four checks on a dividend's record and the company's data, the same test used across the screener and our ranked lists. Solid: a Dividend Safety Score of 70+ and a yield of 2%+. Accelerating: at least three consecutive completed calendar years of higher total regular dividends. Flawless: since 1990, no calendar year whose total regular dividend fell more than 20% below the year before, and no suspension. Enduring: at least 20 years between the first and latest dividend in our records. All four met earns the S.A.F.E. flag.
S Solid
Meets the Solid check: Dividend Safety Score 82/100 and yield 5.87%.
A Accelerating
3 consecutive years of dividend increases.
F Flawless
No calendar year's regular dividend total fell more than 20% below the year before, and no suspension of the regular dividend is on record.
E Enduring
16 year(s) of payments on record, under the 20 this check looks for.

Quote & Key Data

ExchangeOther OTCThe stock exchange where the shares trade, such as NYSE or Nasdaq.
Volume1,746Oct 23, 2026 sessionHow many shares changed hands in the trading session dated beside this figure, a rough read on trading activity. Daily bars are refreshed on a slower cycle than the quoted price, so this session can be older than the price above.
Open$39.19Oct 23, 2026 sessionThe price at the start of the trading session dated beside this figure, which can be earlier than the session the quoted price comes from.
Day Range$37.25 – $39.19Oct 23, 2026 sessionThe lowest and highest price during the trading session dated beside this figure, which can be earlier than the session the quoted price comes from.
Prev Close$37.46Close of Oct 22, 2026The closing price from the session before the one dated beside these figures.
Market Cap$29.03BAs of Oct 30, 2026The company's total market value (share price times shares outstanding) on the date shown.
Shares Out749.21MImplied by market cap, Oct 30, 2026Shares outstanding implied by the market cap and share price on the date shown.
EPS (TTM)GBP 2.1912 months to Mar 31, 2026 (Q2 FY2026); reported in GBPEarnings per share over the trailing twelve months (TTM), labeled with the end date of the latest reported quarter and shown in the company's reporting currency. Dividends are paid out of these earnings.
P/E (TTM)13.4Price as of Oct 25, 2026; earnings to Mar 31, 2026Price-to-earnings ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by trailing-twelve-month earnings per share. A rough gauge of how richly the stock is valued.
Last Ex-DateAug 21, 2026Paid Sep 30, 2026The most recent ex-dividend date that has already passed.
Next Ex-DateN/ANone declared yetThe ex-dividend date of the next payment the company has declared, or that is scheduled when no declaration is on file. Future dates our data provider only projects are not shown.

Dividend Growth

3-Yr Growth (CAGR)9.0%Annual totals, 2022–2025The dividend's average annual growth rate over the period, compounded.
5-Yr Growth (CAGR)1.8%Annual totals, 2020–2025The dividend's average annual growth rate over the period, compounded.
Consecutive Increases3 yrsAnnual totals through 2025The number of consecutive years the dividend has increased.

How often a record like this ends in a cut

Years the payout rose10Since Jul 2010
Rank among payers1096of 2,430 with a record
Years it fell over 20%0in 14 comparable years
Of peers with 10 to 24 up years75%also cut at some point

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 5.87% over the past ~90 days (-0.29 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and -0.29 pp from the share price ($36.90 on Aug 03, 2026 → $38.75 on Oct 30, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.

Yield vs Its Own History

Current5.87%
1-Yr Average5.73%
Low / High4.61% – 7.20%
Percentile57%

Across 272 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), IMBBF's current yield is higher than approximately 57% 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.

TickerNameYield5-Yr GrowthStreakRank
TPB Turning Point Brands, Inc. 0.47% 8.4% 7 yrs 74
MO Altria Group, Inc. 5.79% 4.1% 16 yrs 64
GDNGY PT Gudang Garam Tbk 5.00% N/A N/A 62
IMBBY Imperial Brands PLC 5.64% 2.3% 0 yrs 61

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 5.87%.

What is Imperial Brands PLC's dividend yield?

Imperial Brands PLC's dividend yield is approximately 5.87%, 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 30, 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.