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UOB dividend 2026: every payout, ex-date and pay date, the S$3 billion package and scrip

UOB’s latest dividend with the last day to buy, what your shares get, the S$3 billion package, every scrip issue price and take-up rate, and every payout since FY2008.

By Updated Checked SGT against United Overseas Bank

From UOB’s own dividend tableRead 13 Nov 2026, 10:48 am SGT

88¢a share

2026 interim dividendOrdinary dividend · UOB pays twice a year

Paid 28 Aug 2026

UOB’s latest payout, the 2026 interim dividend of 88¢ a share, was paid on 28 Aug 2026. UOB pays twice a year, so nothing more is due until its full-year results in February.

  1. Last day to buyFri 14 Aug 2026The market day before the ex-date
  2. Ex-dividendMon 17 Aug 2026From UOB’s dividend table
  3. Record dateTue 18 Aug 2026Books close at 5pm, UOB’s results
  4. PaidFri 28 Aug 2026From UOB’s dividend table
FY2026 so far
88¢ a shareAll ordinary
Scrip
Cash only“The UOB scrip dividend scheme will not be applied to the interim dividend.”
Payout ratio
About 50% of profitUOB’s figure, in its results

Next: the final dividend for 2026. Not declared yet. Over the last 5 years it was:

  • Announced16–24 Feb
  • Ex-date24–28 Apr
  • Paid8–13 May

From UOB’s dividend table and its 7 Aug 2026 results. The last day to buy is our date: the market day before the ex-date, with Singapore’s two-day settlement and MOM’s public holidays.

What your UOB shares pay

Start from a holding

UOB’s latest payout, 88¢ a share, the 2026 interim, paid S$880.00 on 1,000 shares held at the close on 14 Aug; it went out on 28 Aug.

UOB dividends on 1,000 shares
WhatOn your shares
Paid in the last 12 months159¢ a share, 2 payoutsS$1,590.00
Financial year 2025, all of it156¢ a share, 2 payoutsS$1,560.00

Add the price you paid, or today’s price from your broker, to see the yield. We don’t show UOB’s share price.

Past payouts, not a forecast: UOB sets each dividend when it reports. UOB dividends are one-tier and not taxed in Singapore.

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Every UOB dividend this year and last

UOB pays twice a year, not every quarter as DBS does. The interim dividend comes with the half-year results in late July or early August and is paid in late August. The final comes with the full-year results in February and is paid in May, after shareholders approve it at the annual general meeting in April. In 2025 a 25-cent special was paid alongside each of them.

FY2026 so far: 88¢ a share

UOB dividends for financial year 2026
PayoutA shareLast day to buyEx-datePaid
InterimOrdinary, announced 7 Aug 202688¢Fri 14 Aug 202617 Aug 202628 Aug 2026

FY2025: 156¢ a share

UOB dividends for financial year 2025
PayoutA shareLast day to buyEx-datePaid
FinalOrdinary, announced 24 Feb 202671¢Thu 23 Apr 202624 Apr 20268 May 2026
InterimOrdinary, announced 7 Aug 202585¢Thu 14 Aug 202515 Aug 202528 Aug 2025

UOB’s financial year is the calendar year. Amounts are Singapore cents a share, one-tier (not taxed). The record date is the market day after the ex-date: for the 2026 interim, UOB’s notice read “Notice is hereby given that the Transfer Books and Register of Members of the Bank will be closed from 5.00 p.m. on 18 August 2026 up to (and including) 19 August 2026, for the purpose of determining shareholders’ entitlements to the interim dividend.” (UOB, 7 Aug 2026).

The S$3 billion package

With its 2024 results on 19 Feb 2025, UOB set out to hand back S$3 billion of spare capital over three years. In its words: “As part of the Bank’s capital distribution strategy, the Board announced a S$3 billion package to distribute surplus capital over the next three years. The package comprises special dividends and share buybacks.” (UOB, 19 Feb 2025). It named two parts. “A special dividend of 50 cents per ordinary share is recommended in 2025, distributing S$0.8 billion of UOB’s surplus capital. This is also to mark the Bank’s 90th anniversary.” And: “In addition, a new share buyback programme of S$2 billion has been introduced.” UOB’s results slides put the buyback “S$2 billion share buyback programme over 3 years”.

The 50-cent special

UOB’s 50-cent special dividend, in two tranches
TrancheA shareEx-datePaid
First tranchePaid with the 2024 final dividend25¢28 Apr 202513 May 2025
Second tranchePaid with the 2025 interim dividend25¢15 Aug 202528 Aug 2025

Both tranches are paid. UOB’s FY2025 results: “In addition to the regular dividends, the Group returned surplus capital to shareholders through a special dividend of 50 cents per ordinary share, which was paid over two tranches during 2025.” (UOB, 24 Feb 2026). No special has been declared since, and nothing UOB has published promises another.

The buybacks

Buybacks don’t pay you cash. UOB buys its own shares in the market and cancels them or holds them in treasury, so each share left has a slightly bigger claim on profit and on future dividends. UOB’s accounts give what it spent each period, but not how much of it counts towards the S$2 billion. Shares bought and cancelled came to S$775 million by 30 June 2026.

UOB’s share buybacks, from its statements of changes in equity
PeriodBought and cancelledBought to hold in treasury
2024The year before the programmeNoneS$102 million, 3.2 million shares
2025S$650 million, 18.51 million sharesS$120 million, 3.45 million shares
First half of 2026S$125 million, 3.33 million sharesS$51 million, 1.34 million shares

Each period links to the UOB statement its figures are from. UOB bought shares to hold in treasury in 2024 too, before the programme, and hands treasury shares out under its staff share plans, so that column isn’t all buyback-programme money. The two parts UOB named, S$0.8 billion and S$2 billion, add up to S$2.8 billion of the S$3 billion; the releases we read don’t say how the rest is to be returned.

UOB dividends since FY2008

UOB’s ordinary dividend went from 60 cents a share for FY2008 to S$1.80 for FY2024. It then came down to S$1.56 for FY2025, when UOB’s net profit fell 23% after what it called pre-emptive general allowances in the third quarter. UOB still says it paid out about half of profit. On the final, its release said: “In recognising the final dividends, the pre-emptive general provision set aside in the third quarter was excluded from the final dividend calculation” (UOB, 24 Feb 2026).

The other fall came in 2020. With its half-year results that August, UOB declared 39 cents and wrote: “This is in line with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s call for banks to cap the total dividends per share (DPS) at 60% of the prior year’s DPS and to make available the option to receive dividends in scrip” (UOB, 6 Aug 2020). FY2019 had paid S$1.30, the special included. Sixty per cent of that is 78 cents, and UOB paid exactly that for FY2020: 39 cents in each half.

Between FY2008 and FY2024, UOB paid specials for nine financial years, mostly 5 to 20 cents alongside a final dividend. One came on its own: “To commemorate UOB’s 80th anniversary, the Board is pleased to declare a one-off 80th Anniversary dividend of 20 cents per ordinary share,” declared with the third-quarter results in October 2015 and paid in January 2016 (UOB, 30 Oct 2015). The largest is the 50-cent special of 2025, above.

Ordinary Special

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UOB dividends per share, as paid, from UOB’s dividend table: by the financial year they are for (FY2026 is the year so far), or by the year the cash arrived.
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UOB dividends a share by financial year (the calendar year)
YearOrdinarySpecialTotal
FY2026 so far88¢–88¢
FY2025156¢–156¢
FY2024180¢50¢230¢
FY2023170¢–170¢
FY2022135¢–135¢
FY2021120¢–120¢
FY202078¢–78¢
FY2019110¢20¢130¢
FY2018100¢20¢120¢
FY201780¢20¢100¢
FY201670¢–70¢
FY201570¢20¢90¢
FY201470¢5¢75¢
FY201370¢5¢75¢
FY201260¢10¢70¢
FY201160¢–60¢
FY201060¢10¢70¢
FY200960¢–60¢
FY200860¢–60¢
Every UOB dividend since FY2008 (47 payouts)
Every UOB dividend: amount, dates and scrip issue price
PayoutA shareAnnouncedEx-datePaidScrip
2026 interim88¢7 Aug 202617 Aug 202628 Aug 2026
2025 final71¢24 Feb 202624 Apr 20268 May 2026
2025 interim85¢7 Aug 202515 Aug 202528 Aug 2025
2024 special25¢19 Feb 202515 Aug 202528 Aug 2025
2024 final92¢19 Feb 202528 Apr 202513 May 2025
2024 special25¢19 Feb 202528 Apr 202513 May 2025
2024 interim88¢1 Aug 202412 Aug 202423 Aug 2024
2023 final85¢22 Feb 202425 Apr 20249 May 2024
2023 interim85¢27 Jul 20234 Aug 202318 Aug 2023
2022 final75¢23 Feb 202328 Apr 202312 May 2023
2022 interim60¢29 Jul 20228 Aug 202222 Aug 2022
2021 final60¢16 Feb 202228 Apr 202213 May 2022
2021 interim60¢4 Aug 202116 Aug 202127 Aug 2021
2020 final39¢25 Feb 20216 May 202125 Jun 2021Applied, S$26.31
2020 interim39¢6 Aug 202026 Aug 202013 Oct 2020Applied, S$19.52
2019 final55¢21 Feb 202015 Jun 202029 Jun 2020
2019 special20¢21 Feb 202015 Jun 202029 Jun 2020
2019 interim55¢2 Aug 201915 Aug 201927 Aug 2019
2018 final50¢22 Feb 20196 May 201916 May 2019
2018 special20¢22 Feb 20196 May 201916 May 2019
2018 interim50¢3 Aug 201814 Aug 201828 Aug 2018
2017 final45¢14 Feb 201826 Apr 201813 Jun 2018Applied, S$29.66
2017 special20¢14 Feb 201826 Apr 201813 Jun 2018Applied, S$29.66
2017 interim35¢28 Jul 201714 Aug 201728 Sep 2017Applied, S$23.93
2016 final35¢17 Feb 201726 Apr 201713 Jun 2017Applied, S$19.49
2016 interim35¢28 Jul 201615 Aug 201629 Sep 2016Applied, S$15.83
2015 final35¢16 Feb 201627 Apr 201611 May 2016
2015 80th anniversary20¢30 Oct 201516 Nov 20154 Jan 2016Applied, S$19.78
2015 interim35¢31 Jul 201517 Aug 201527 Aug 2015
2014 final50¢13 Feb 201529 Apr 201513 May 2015
2014 special5¢13 Feb 201529 Apr 201513 May 2015
2014 interim20¢31 Jul 201418 Aug 201428 Aug 2014
2013 final50¢14 Feb 201429 Apr 201416 Jun 2014Applied, S$21.48
2013 special5¢14 Feb 201429 Apr 201416 Jun 2014Applied, S$21.48
2013 interim20¢1 Aug 201326 Aug 20135 Sep 2013
2012 final40¢27 Feb 20136 May 201317 May 2013
2012 special10¢27 Feb 20136 May 201317 May 2013
2012 interim20¢7 Aug 201230 Aug 201213 Sep 2012
2011 final40¢23 Feb 20127 May 201222 May 2012
2011 interim20¢12 Aug 20111 Sep 201115 Sep 2011
2010 final40¢25 Feb 20115 May 201121 Jun 2011Applied, S$18.01
2010 special10¢25 Feb 20115 May 201121 Jun 2011Applied, S$18.01
2010 interim20¢10 Aug 201025 Aug 201013 Oct 2010Applied, S$17.64
2009 final40¢26 Feb 20107 May 201025 Jun 2010Applied, S$17.12
2009 interim20¢5 Aug 200919 Aug 20092 Sep 2009
2008 final40¢27 Feb 20097 May 200925 May 2009
2008 interim20¢5 Aug 200818 Aug 20081 Sep 2008UOB prints 2 Sep 2009

UOB’s dividend table starts with FY2008. “Announced” is the day of the results each payout came with, from UOB’s events page. “Applied, S$” is the price UOB set for each new share taken instead of cash.

The FY2008 interim’s pay date

UOB’s dividend table gives the FY2008 interim a pay date of 2 Sep 2009, more than a year after its 18 Aug 2008 ex-date and the same day as the FY2009 interim’s. UOB’s half-year results on 5 Aug 2008 said: “The dividend will be paid in cash on 1 September 2008.” (UOB 2Q08 results). So we show Monday 1 September 2008; the year in UOB’s table looks like a typing slip.

The scrip dividend scheme

UOB’s scrip dividend scheme lets you take new UOB shares instead of cash, but only for the dividends UOB’s board applies it to. UOB’s dividend table marks 14 payouts where it did, in 11 share issues, the last being the 2020 final dividend paid in June 2021. UOB’s board decides afresh each time; its latest announcement, with the 2026 interim, says: “The UOB scrip dividend scheme will not be applied to the interim dividend.”

UOB sets the issue price from the market after the ex-date. Its scrip page says the price is based on “the average of the last dealt prices of UOB shares”, over a period that “commences on the date on which the Shares are first traded on an ex-dividend basis and ends on the Record Date”, less the discount UOB lists for each issue. The number of new shares is your shares times the dividend, divided by that price.

Every UOB scrip issue: discount, issue price and take-up, from UOB’s scrip page
PayoutDividendDiscountIssue priceTaken as sharesNew shares per 1,000
FY2020 final39¢0%S$26.318%14.82
FY2020 interim39¢0%S$19.5210%19.98
FY2017 final and special65¢0%S$29.6625%21.92
FY2017 interim35¢0%S$23.939%14.63
FY2016 final35¢10%S$19.4976%17.96
FY2016 interim35¢10%S$15.8377%22.11
FY2015 80th anniversary20¢0%S$19.7831%10.11
FY2013 final and special55¢0%S$21.4860%25.61
FY2010 final and special50¢5%S$18.0171%27.76
FY2010 interim20¢5%S$17.6467%11.34
FY2009 final40¢10%S$17.1269%23.36

The discount mattered. In the 5 issues where UOB took 5% or 10% off the price, its take-up rate ran from 67% to 77%. In the 6 with no discount, it ran from 8% to 60%.

Discount, issue price and take-up rate (“Taken as shares”) are UOB’s, from its scrip page; the share counts are our sum before any rounding. Scrip also slowed the cash for everyone: from ex-date to payment took a median of 48 days on payouts with scrip, against 14 days on cash-only ones, because UOB waits for shareholders to choose.

UOB beside DBS and OCBC

Over the last 12 months, counting payouts already declared: DBS paid in Apr, May, Aug and Nov; OCBC paid in May and Aug; UOB paid in May and Aug. Holding all three spreads the cash across more months, but the cents per share can’t be compared between banks: each share costs a different amount, which is why yield needs a price.

DBS, OCBC and UOB dividends by pay date, the last 12 months and those declared
PaidBankPayoutA share
17 Apr 2026DBSCapital Return dividend + 4Q final dividend81¢
8 May 2026OCBCFinal 2025 + Special 202558¢
8 May 2026UOBFinal 202571¢
20 May 2026DBSCapital Return dividend + 1Q interim dividend81¢
25 Aug 2026DBSCapital Return dividend + 2Q interim dividend81¢
28 Aug 2026OCBCInterim 202647¢
28 Aug 2026UOBInterim 202688¢
24 Nov 2026DBSCapital Return dividend + 3Q interim dividend81¢

From each bank’s own investor page, as read for our dividend calendar, which also gives the last day to buy for every one.

The dates, and how long UOB takes

The dates of UOB’s interim dividend for FY2026, step by stepInterim dividend for FY2026: 88 cents a share

  1. Announced

    UOB announces the dividend with its results and fixes the dates.

    Fri 7 Aug 2026

  2. Last day to buy

    The market day before the ex-date. A trade settles two market days later (SGX Rule 9.2.1), so shares bought by this day’s close are on the register in time.

    Fri 14 Aug 2026, 7 days after the announcement

  3. Ex-date

    From this day the share trades without the dividend: a share bought now doesn’t get it.

    Mon 17 Aug 2026

  4. Paid

    UOB pays the dividend.

    Fri 28 Aug 2026, 11 days after the ex-date

Dates from UOB’s dividend table, read 10:48 am, 13 Nov SGT. Weekends and Singapore public holidays aren’t market days. The dividend calendar has every company’s dates.

Since FY2021, UOB has typically gone ex-dividend 10 days after announcing an interim dividend, and 64 days after announcing a final one, which waits for the annual general meeting in April. The cash typically follows 14 days after the ex-date. Each figure is the median, to the nearest day.

Three dates matter, and only one of them is for you to act on. The last day to buy is the market day before the ex-date: Singapore trades settle two market days later, so a share bought then is on UOB’s register at the record date. From the ex-date, the share trades without the dividend. The record date is when UOB counts its shareholders: 5pm on the market day after the ex-date. UOB’s dividend table doesn’t give it, so it comes from the notice in each results announcement. For the 2026 interim: “Notice is hereby given that the Transfer Books and Register of Members of the Bank will be closed from 5.00 p.m. on 18 August 2026 up to (and including) 19 August 2026, for the purpose of determining shareholders’ entitlements to the interim dividend.” (UOB)

UOB lists its results dates on its events page. Its last 5 full-year results came between 16 and 24 Feb; the date for the next hadn’t been listed when we last read the page.

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Questions

Does UOB pay dividends every quarter?

No. UOB pays twice a year: an interim dividend in August and a final dividend in May. Every UOB dividend since FY2008 has come with its half-year or full-year results, not its first- or third-quarter updates, except the one-off 80th anniversary dividend in October 2015. DBS pays every quarter, which is why a month with a DBS payout can pass with nothing from UOB.

If I sell on the ex-date, do I still get the dividend?

Yes. What counts is owning the shares at the close of the last day to buy. Shares sold on or after the ex-date still settle after the record date, so the dividend comes to you. The buyer gets the next one.

Are UOB dividends taxed?

Not in Singapore. UOB’s table lists every dividend since FY2008 as “one-tier tax-exempt”, the specials included. IRAS lists among dividends that are generally not taxable “Dividends paid to shareholders by a Singapore resident company under the one-tier corporate tax system (as the tax paid by a company is final)”, and asks you to declare only taxable dividends in your return.

What is UOB’s dividend yield?

It depends on the price you pay. Yield is a year’s dividends divided by the share price, and we don’t show UOB’s share price because SGX’s terms don’t allow it. Type a price into the calculator above, the one you paid or today’s from your broker. It works out the yield on the last 12 months of payouts and on the last full financial year, without the specials too when there were any. Those are past payouts, so the yield looks back: UOB sets each new dividend when it reports.

Will UOB pay a special dividend for 2026?

Nothing UOB has published says so. The S$3 billion package named one special, the 50 cents paid in 2025, with a S$2 billion buyback over three years. UOB decides the FY2026 final dividend, and anything with it, at its full-year results in February 2027. This page will show it as soon as UOB’s table does.

Can I take UOB shares instead of cash?

Not at the moment. The scheme still exists, but UOB’s board decides for each dividend whether it applies. It last did for the FY2020 final, paid in June 2021; UOB’s table marks no scrip payout since. The latest announcement’s line on it is quoted in the scrip section.

Why do websites show different UOB dividend amounts for a year?

Mostly because of the specials and the way the year is counted. For FY2024, UOB paid S$1.80 in ordinary dividends, or S$2.30 with both 25-cent specials. UOB files the second special under FY2024 even though it was paid in August 2025 with the FY2025 interim, so a site that goes by pay date counts it in 2025. Counted by the year the cash arrived, 2025 paid S$2.27 a share. The chart shows both ways. And UOB’s own table prints a pay date a year out for the FY2008 interim, so dates copied from it differ from ours (explained above).

Where can I see every SGX dividend, not just UOB’s?

Our Singapore dividend calendar lists every payout announced by the companies, REITs and ETFs we follow, read from their own pages, with the last day to buy for each. For the other banks, see our DBS and OCBC dividend pages; for Singapore Airlines’ ordinary and special dividends, our SIA dividend page; and for Singtel’s core and value realisation dividends, our Singtel dividend page.

Changes to this page

No corrections yet. The first one will be listed here, with the date and what changed.

  1. New: UOB dividend page. UOB’s latest dividend with the last day to buy and record date; what your shares get; the S$3 billion package, with the 50-cent special and the buybacks in UOB’s accounts; every payout since FY2008 with the day it was announced; and every scrip issue with its discount, price and take-up rate. See the page

How we know this

Every amount, ex-date and pay date comes from UOB’s dividend table. Every scrip discount, issue price and take-up rate comes from its scrip dividend page. Each announcement date is the day of the results the payout came with, from its events page. We read all three twice a day. One date, the FY2008 interim’s pay date, is corrected from UOB’s own results, as explained above. Record dates, the payout ratio, the S$3 billion package, the buybacks and the 2020 cap come from UOB’s results announcements and financial statements on its investor relations site, each linked where it is used. The last day to buy is our date: the market day before the ex-date, skipping weekends and MOM’s public holidays. We don’t use SGX’s data or show UOB’s share price, since SGX’s terms don’t allow it. Nothing here is advice to buy or sell. More dividends are on the Investing hub.