B Mirror Report:Domestic companies often retain profits within the firm by issuing bonus shares in the name of business expansion. Yet despite doing so, their profits do not increase significantly.

In contrast, multinational companies continue to record rising profits even after distributing hundreds of percent in cash dividends. In many cases, they generate higher profits than local companies worth hundreds of crores of taka, even with relatively small paid-up capital.

Unilever Consumer Care Limited has been operating in a similar manner. Over the past 10 years, the company has not declared dividends below 300 percent. Meanwhile, many local companies struggle even to provide 10 percent dividends, and those often include bonus shares.

In 2025, Unilever Consumer Care Limited earned a net profit of Tk 79.43 crore, with earnings per share (EPS) of Tk 41.21, against a paid-up capital of Tk 19.27 crore.

Against this profit, the company’s board has decided to distribute a 420 percent cash dividend, equivalent to Tk 42 per share, totaling Tk 80.95 crore. Such a level of dividend payout is difficult even for many banks listed on the stock market with capital worth thousands of crores of taka.

Of the Tk 79.43 crore net profit earned in 2025, shareholders will receive Tk 80.95 crore in cash dividends, which amounts to 101.91 percent of the profit. The additional Tk 1.52 crore will be paid from the company’s reserves.

In the previous year, the company reported a net profit of Tk 66.73 crore, with earnings per share of Tk 34.62. That year, it declared a 520 percent cash dividend, amounting to Tk 100.23 crore.