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Dividend Stock: In the stock market, it is often profitable to invest in companies which pay dividends every year. One such company is Coal India Limited (CIL). This government company involved in coal mining announced its results for the quarter ending December 31, 2025 last Thursday. It also announced the third final dividend for its shareholders.
The Board of Directors of Maharatna PSU has announced a dividend of Rs 5.50 per share for investors for the financial year 2025-26.
When has the record date been fixed?
“The Board of Directors, in its meeting held today, inter alia, has declared a third interim dividend of Rs 5.50 per equity share at face value of Rs 10 for the financial year 2025-26, as recommended by the Audit Committee of CIL in its meeting held today,” CIL said in an exchange filing.
Earlier, dividends of Rs 5.50 and Rs 10.25 per share have been declared in July and then October respectively. The company has set the record date as February 18, 2026 to determine which shareholders will get to profit from the final dividend. According to the company, the dividend will be paid to eligible shareholders within 30 days of declaration. According to the company, the dividend will be paid to eligible shareholders within 30 days of declaration.
How were the results in Q3 FY26?
There was a decline of 15.8 percent in the consolidated net profit of Coal India for the quarter ending December 2025. With this, the company’s profit was recorded at Rs 7,157.45 crore. The company suffered this loss due to decline in sales and increase in expenses.
The company’s revenue from operations increased by 7.9 percent to Rs 34,924 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 32,359 crore in the same quarter last year. During this period, an increase of 19.4 percent was recorded in EBITDA on annual basis and it reached Rs 9,331 crore, whereas in the December quarter of the last financial year it was Rs 7,817 crore.
EBITDA margin increased by 256 bps year-on-year to 26.7 percent in the October-December 2025 period, compared to 24.2 percent at the same time last year. In the December quarter last year, Coal India’s consolidated net profit was reported at Rs 8,505.57 crore.
Sales decreased, expenses increased
The sales of Coal India, a company which has 80 percent share in the country’s coal production, declined from Rs 32,358.98 crore in the same quarter of the last financial year to Rs 30,818.17 crore this time. During this period, the consolidated expenses of the company increased to Rs 28,132 crore, whereas in the same quarter last year it was Rs 27,280 crore.
In the first nine months of the current financial year, the company produced 529.19 million tonnes (MT), which is less than 543.36 MT produced in the April-December period of the last financial year. CIL’s coal offtake in the April-December period of FY26 was 545.74 MT, which is less than 561.68 MT in the same period last year.
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