INVESTOR CENTRE
Dividends
Batelco Group maintains a strategy focused on value creation for shareholders. As a result, over the last seven years, the cash paid out as well as bonus shares issued by the Group totals some BD461 million (US$1.2 billion), representing an average payout of 71%.
Dividend payments by the Group are made on an interim and annual basis in July and March of each year.
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Cash Dividends (Interim) | 24,000 | 24,000 | 28,800 | 28,800 | 28,800 | 28,800 | 21,600 |
| Cash Dividends (Final) | 33,600 | 24,000 | 43,200 | 43,200 | 28,800 | 28,800 | 14,400 |
| Bonus Shares | - | 24,000 | - | - | - | - | 14,400 |
| Total Dividend (with Bonus) | 57,600 | 72,000 | 72,000 | 72,000 | 64,800 | 57,600 | 50,400 |
| Pay out Ratio | 64% | 71% | 69% | 69% | 75% | 72% | 84% |
| Dividends - Fils | 48 | 60 | 50 | 50 | 45 | 40 | 35 |