The company plans to pay a final dividend of 10.5 US cents per share. Coming on top of the bumper special dividend of 44.3 US cents and interim dividend of 3.5 US cents already paid, DFI will be paying a total of 58.3 US cents. In absolute terms, DFI will be returning US$740 million in total to its shareholders. In contrast, DFI paid a total of 10.5 US cents for FY2024.
“Effective execution of our strategy drove strong financial performance and higher shareholder returns in 2025, despite a challenging retail environment," says chairman Lincoln Pan.
"Our significant progress made in portfolio simplification creates investment capacity for strategic priorities, enabling greater value for our customers and accretive inorganic opportunities to drive sustainable growth and returns," says Pan, who is the newly-appointed CEO of Jardine Matheson, DFI's parent company.
Scott Price, DFI's CEO, is aiming for organic revenue growth of around 2-3% for this current FY2026, and underlying profit attributable to shareholders to be between US$270 million and US$300 million.
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As indicated in its investors' day last December, DFI is reiterating its goal to achieve US$310-350 million in underlying profit by 2028.
DFI Retail Group shares closed at US$4.14 on March 3, up 1.97% for the day, and up 87.33% in the past year.
