A diary of what a dividend is and what was read.

What this diary is

A dividend diary records, company by company, what was declared, when the register closed and when the money was paid. This one covers ten NSE companies (HINDUNILVR, KOTAKBANK, NTPC, ONGC, SUNPHARMA, HCLTECH, TITAN, MARUTI, ULTRACEMCO, JSWSTEEL) and is honest about what it could read: the quote and 52-week range of each company from a public screener on 6 November 2026. No dividend record could be read: the corporate-action interface of the BSE refused the request, so the diary has no amounts and no dates.

Everything else on the page is arithmetic and explanation: how a dividend works, how to turn an amount into a percentage of the price, and where the real notices are.

Ten companies by place in the 52-week range

The board in a paragraph

On the session of 6 November 2026 10 of the ten closed higher and 0 lower; the changes run from +0.11% (JSWSTEEL) to +3.42% (TITAN). 1 closes are in the lowest quarter of their 52-week range and 4 in the highest. The lowest place is ONGC (14.9 of 100) and the highest KOTAKBANK (100.0).

The close is the last price of a finished session; the price you meet on a broker's screen will differ.

Why there is no dividend table

The table this diary should have is a list of declared dividends with record dates and amounts. The sources for it are the exchange's corporate-action pages and the companies' announcements. The BSE interface answered HTTP 403 to this server on 6 November 2026, and the NSE's pages were not read. Nothing was substituted.

A table of dividends from memory would be a table of things that may have changed, with the date of the memory missing. This diary prefers a gap with a reason.

The ten by market value

By the market value the screener prints, the largest of the ten is HINDUNILVR at 4.64 lakh crore and the smallest ONGC at 2.95 lakh crore; the order is HINDUNILVR, KOTAKBANK, SUNPHARMA, TITAN, HCLTECH, MARUTI, ULTRACEMCO, JSWSTEEL, NTPC, ONGC. Market value is the number of shares in issue times the price.

A large market value says a company is large at the price of the day. It says nothing about its dividend.

The price step at each price

Reading the price step

NSE equities are quoted in steps of Rs 0.05: an order price is a multiple of five paise. The table shows one step as a share of each close. For the lowest-priced company, ONGC at ₹ 231.76, a step is 0.022% of the price; for the highest, MARUTI at ₹ 12,750.00, it is 0.0004%.

The step matters to a dividend buyer only at the margin: it is the smallest amount by which a limit order can differ from another.

Shares bought with three budgets

Why the share count matters for a dividend

Equity trading on the NSE has no minimum lot: one share is the smallest order, so a budget buys the whole number of shares it divides into. A dividend is paid per share, so what a holder receives is the amount per share times the number of shares held.

With ₹ 25,000, ONGC gives 107 shares and MARUTI 1 at the 6 November 2026 close. The table above gives every company at three budgets.

Declared in rupees, paid in rupees

Indian companies declare a dividend as an amount per share of the stated face value, sometimes with the same amount expressed as a percentage of face value. An interim dividend is declared by the board during the year; a final dividend is recommended by the board and approved by shareholders at the annual meeting. The notice states which.

Reading it correctly means finding the amount per share, whether it is interim or final, the record date and the payment date. The worksheet page has columns for each.

What a dividend of 1, 5 and 10 rupees per share would be as a percent of the close

A formula applied to the 6 November 2026 close, not a dividend any company declared: the amount divided by the close, times 100. Replace the amount with the figure from a real announcement.

How to use the multiplier table

Find the company, take the percentage in the column nearest your amount and scale it. At the 6 November 2026 close, 1 rupee per share is 0.43% of ONGC and 0.01% of MARUTI: the lower the price, the more a rupee of dividend weighs.

The result is a share of the close, before tax and costs, for one dividend. A yearly figure needs every dividend of the year added.

From a dividend to a sum of money

With a budget of ₹ 25,000, ONGC buys 107 shares (₹ 24,798.32) and MARUTI 1 (₹ 12,750) at the 6 November 2026 close. A dividend of 1 rupee per share pays 107 rupees on the first and 1 on the second, before tax.

The same sum for each company is on its page; the point here is that the payment scales with the number of shares, and the number of shares with the price.

Reading a dividend notice, line by line

A notice has a short list of facts. Who declares: the company and the class of shares. What: interim, final or special, and for which period. How much: an amount per share, sometimes also as a percentage of face value. When: the record date or the book-closure period, the ex-date where the exchange states it, and the payment date. How: the way the money reaches the holder.

If any of the six is missing from what you are reading, you are reading a summary, and the original notice is the next thing to open.

Interim, final and special

An interim dividend is declared during the financial year, for instance after a quarter or a half-year; a final dividend closes the year and is tied to the annual meeting; a special dividend is a one-off. The names are the company's, and two dividends of the same name in different years are not comparable on amount alone.

A yearly figure is the sum of every dividend whose ex-date falls in the year. The diary does not add them, because it holds no amounts.

Five readings to avoid

Treating one dividend as a yearly yield. Comparing an amount per share with a total. Mixing a percentage of face value with a percentage of price. Counting the payment date as the date that decides who is paid. Reading a price fall on the ex-date as a fall caused by selling alone.

Each is a misreading of a figure that is correct on its own, and each is avoided by writing the six facts of the notice down in the same order every time.

Why a price board sits in a dividend diary

A dividend is paid per share and a share costs a price, so the two are always read together. The board gives the price, the change and the place of the close in the year's range for the ten companies; the dividend, when it is read from a notice, goes beside it.

On the 6 November 2026 reading the lowest place is ONGC and the highest KOTAKBANK. A low place in the range with the same dividend is a higher yield, and a high place a lower one; the place itself is not a reason to buy or to wait.

Dates, in order

Declaration, then record date (or the start of a book closure), then the ex-date, then payment. In that order the market learns the amount, then the register is fixed, then the price is adjusted, then the money moves.

A reader following one dividend writes the four dates down once and checks them against the company's notice; the worksheet page has the table.

Two dates on every table

Each table names the session date (6 November 2026) and the read date (6 November 2026). The data was read once and stays; if it is read again the pages are rebuilt and the dates and figures change together.

That is why a dividend notice newer than the read date will not be here.

Where the figures come from

The TradingView public screener, one reading on 6 November 2026: name, close, change, 52-week range and market value. There is no second source for these figures, so the checks are internal: the close lies inside the range, the change matches the close and the previous close, the place in the range is recomputed.

The checker is itself tested with planted errors, and the method page lists them.

What is left out on purpose

Dividend amounts, yields, tax rates, tariffs, forecasts and recommendations. None is among the figures read, and writing them from memory would be inventing them.

The rules of the exchange are stated as the exchange's rules, and a reader who needs a decision should read the exchange's notice.

Five questions before counting on a dividend

Is there a declaration, and does it name an amount per share? What are the record and ex-dates, and do they fall after the day you would buy? Is the amount per share or in total? Is the payment date stated? What tax applies to you?

Each has an answer in the company's notice or your broker's statement, which is where to look.

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