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Shares of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) will trade ex-date for an interim dividend on Thursday, December 18. The state-run oil marketing company has announced an interim dividend of Rs 5 per equity share for the financial year 2025–26. On Wednesday, IOCL shares closed at Rs 168.20 on the BSE, up Rs 0.46, or 0.27 per cent.

Indian Oil has fixed Thursday, December 18, 2025, as the record date to determine eligible shareholders for the interim dividend, the company said in an exchange filing. Investors holding the stock on or before the record date will be eligible to receive the dividend.

The company said the interim dividend will be paid on or before January 11, 2026.

Earlier, Indian Oil had announced a final dividend of Rs 3 per share, with August 8, 2025, fixed as the ex-date. As per data available on the BSE, the company has declared 40 dividends since August 27, 2021.

At the current market price of Rs 168.20, Indian Oil’s dividend yield stands at 3.86 per cent.

According to BSE Analytics, Indian Oil shares have delivered returns of 134 per cent over the past 10 years and 164 per cent over five years. The stock has gained 19 per cent over the last one year and is up 22 per cent on a year-to-date basis. However, the stock has corrected nearly 3 per cent over the past one month, compared with a marginal gain of 0.12 per cent in the benchmark index over the same period.