BP plc dividends
BP paid $0.3264 per ordinary share for FY2025. The dividend per share has gone up 4 years in a row.
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- Dividend per share is the cash a company pays for each share, added up for each fiscal year.
- A company listed abroad files one annual report a year with the SEC. Its figures here are in US dollars, per ordinary share; one US-listed share stands for 6 ordinary shares, as that report states them.
- Payout is the share of profit, or of free cash flow, paid out. Below 100% the dividend is covered; above it the company paid more than it made that year.
- A dividend that grows year after year is often a sign of a steady business.
Dividend per share
USD, per ordinary shareThe dividend went from $0.40 in FY2015 to $0.3264 in FY2025, per ordinary share, up 0.7% a year over the last five.
Each column is the dividend per ordinary share for one fiscal year, in US dollars, as the annual report states it. Hover or tap for the change on the year before.
Cash paid to shareholders
USDBP paid $5.1B in dividends in FY2025, against $6.7B in FY2015.
The dividends BP paid in cash each fiscal year, from its cash flow statement, in US dollars.
How much of earnings it pays out
share of each yearThe dividend took more than the year's profit in 5 years (FY2019, FY2024, FY2025 and more).
The share of each year's net profit (blue) and free cash flow (green) paid as dividends, both in the company's own currency. The dashed line is 100%: above it, the company paid more than it made that year. Values above 400% sit on the top edge.
How it compares
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Every year as a table
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Dividend per share | Dividends paid | Of net profit | Of free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | $0.3264 | $5.06 billion | 9198% | n/a |
| FY2024 | $0.3054 | $5.00 billion | 1313% | n/a |
| FY2023 | $0.2776 | $4.81 billion | 32% | n/a |
| FY2022 | $0.2293 | $4.36 billion | n/a | n/a |
| FY2021 | $0.2142 | $4.30 billion | 57% | n/a |
| FY2020 | $0.315 | $6.34 billion | n/a | n/a |
| FY2019 | $0.41 | $6.95 billion | 172% | n/a |
| FY2018 | $0.405 | $6.70 billion | 71% | n/a |
| FY2017 | $0.40 | $6.15 billion | 182% | n/a |
| FY2016 | $0.40 | $4.61 billion | 4010% | n/a |
| FY2015 | $0.40 | $6.66 billion | n/a | n/a |