Prudential Plc (LON:PRU) has today announced its 2026 first interim dividend of 8.88 US cents per ordinary share.
Shareholders holding shares on the UK or Hong Kong share registers will receive their dividend payments in either pounds sterling or Hong Kong dollars respectively, unless they elect to receive dividend payments in US dollars. Elections for US dollar payments must be made through the relevant UK or Hong Kong share registrar on or before 2 October 2026. Further information is available at https://www.prudentialplc.com/en/investors/shareholder-centre/cash-dividend-and-currency-election/. The corresponding amount per share in pounds sterling and Hong Kong dollars is expected to be announced on or around 9 October 2026. The US dollar to pound sterling and to Hong Kong dollar conversion rates will be determined by the actual rates achieved by Prudential buying those currencies.
Holders of American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) will receive their dividend payments in US dollars through Citibank N.A., the ADR Depositary. Shareholders holding an interest in Prudential shares through The Central Depository (Pte) Limited (“CDP”) in Singapore (“Singapore Shareholders”) will receive their dividend payments in Singapore dollars at the prevailing market exchange rate.
All shares bought back by Prudential awaiting cancellation on the Record Date (as defined below) are not eligible for the 2026 first interim dividend.
A scrip dividend alternative will be offered in respect of the 2026 first interim dividend in accordance with the Evergreen Scrip Dividend Scheme Terms and Conditions available on Prudential’s website at https://www.prudentialplc.com/en/investors/shareholder-information/dividend/scrip-dividend. The scrip dividend alternative will involve the issuance of relevant new ordinary shares on the Hong Kong line only. Prudential will make available a share dealing facility (the “Dealing Facility”) to enable shareholders who are not able to hold their shares on the Hong Kong line to participate in the scrip dividend alternative.
Unless a shareholder has an existing scrip dividend mandate in place, elections for the scrip dividend alternative must be received by the deadlines specified in the timetable below. In particular, shareholders holding shares through CREST or an intermediary / CCASS, or Singapore Shareholders who cannot apply for a permanent election, will need to complete a scrip dividend election by the relevant deadline specified below, as their past elections cannot be captured.
Prudential will apply to the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (“HKEX”) and to Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (“SGX”) for the new shares to be listed, and to the HKEX, London Stock Exchange (“LSE”) and SGX for the shares to be admitted to trading on the HKEX, LSE and SGX.
Shareholders on the UK register have the option of participating in the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) instead of the scrip dividend alternative, which enables shareholders to invest their cash dividend directly in the purchase of Prudential shares in the market. Further information on the DRIP is available at https://www.prudentialplc.com/en/investors/shareholder-centre/dividend-reinvestment-plan/.
2026 first interim dividend timetable
| Ex-dividend date | 10 September 2026 (Hong Kong, UK and Singapore) |
| Record date | 11 September 2026 |
| Announcement of scrip dividend reference price(2) | 17 September 2026 |
| Expected publication of mandate forms | On or around 17 September 2026 (Hong Kong – currency and scrip dividend elections) On or around 18 September 2026 (Singapore – scrip dividend election) Mandate forms for UK shareholders (currency, scrip dividend and DRIP elections) are available to download on Prudential’s website at any time. |
| Deadline for receipt of currency elections | 5.00pm (UK register) or 4.30pm (Hong Kong register)(3) on 2 October 2026 |
| Deadline for receipt of scrip dividend elections | 5.30pm (Singapore register) on 25 September 2026 5.00pm (UK register) or 4.30pm (Hong Kong register)(3) on 2 October 2026 |
| Deadline for receipt of DRIP elections | 5.00pm (UK register) on 2 October 2026 |
| Announcement regarding issue of new shares pursuant to scrip dividend alternative | On or around 7 October 2026 |
| Pound sterling and Hong Kong dollar amount per share announced | On or around 9 October 2026 |
| Payment date, when cash dividends are paid and applicable CCASS accounts are credited with new scrip shares (other than scrip shares to be sold under the Dealing Facility(4)) | 22 October 2026 (Hong Kong, UK and ADR holders) On or around 29 October 2026 (Singapore) |
Notes:
(1) All times are local times.
(2) The price used to calculate the number of new ordinary shares offered under the scrip dividend alternative is the average middle-market price of the shares of Prudential on the LSE over a five-day dealing period commencing on the Ex-Dividend Date and converted to US Dollars using the mid-point WMR spot exchange rates quoted by Bloomberg in London at or around 11.00am on 16 September 2026.
(3) The latest time for returning the mandate form by Hong Kong shareholders will be extended, as the case may be, in accordance with (a) and (b) below if a tropical cyclone warning signal number 8 or above, or “extreme conditions” announced by the Government of Hong Kong, or a “black” rainstorm warning signal is in force in Hong Kong (all times Hong Kong time):
a. at any time before 12.00 noon and no longer in force after 12.00 noon on Friday, 2 October 2026, in which case the latest time for the return of the mandate form will be extended to 5.00pm on the same business day; or
b. at any time between 12.00 noon and 4.00pm on Friday, 2 October 2026, in which case the latest time for the return of the mandate form will be extended to 4.30pm on the next business day where none of the above warnings is in force at any time between 9.00am and 4.00pm.
(4) Distribution of sale proceeds to shareholders (holding their shares on the UK share register) participating in the scrip dividend alternative via the Dealing Facility will be made within 14 Hong Kong trading days of the completion of the sale of the relevant shares.
Elections for shares held on the UK share register via CREST
On 15 September 2026, Prudential’s registrar, Computershare Investor Services PLC, will distribute Electronic Election Entitlements (Interim ISIN code GB00BT7JH788) to all Prudential shareholders holding shares on the UK share register through CREST on the Record Date. To make an election via EEEs, shareholders holding through CREST will be required to transfer an appropriate number of entitlement shares into a CREST member account via an Unmatched Stock Event transaction. There will be a separate account designated to each option, and these details will be made available in the CREST system.
Elections via CREST should be received by Computershare no later than 5.00pm on 2 October 2026. If the USE is not settled by such deadline, the dividend will be paid in cash in the default currency. Shareholders holding shares through CREST will need to ensure that their election is made to the appropriate CREST Member Account as detailed in the Corporate Action Event that will be made available in the CREST system by Euroclear UK & International Limited (“Euroclear“) against the Interim ISIN Code GB00BT7JH788.
An election via CREST will not apply in respect of future dividends as Euroclear will centrally delete all existing dividend election instruction messages submitted on Prudential ordinary shares prior to the Record Date. Therefore, in order to avoid automatically receiving the cash dividend in its default currency, elections will need to be made via Dividend with Options for the 2026 first interim dividend and every future dividend.
