Nairobi, Feb. 2 -- Kenya Power has increased its interim dividend by 50 percent to Sh0.3 per share for the half year to December 2025 as the company continued to enhance payouts to shareholders amid profit growth.

The company, which had paid an interim dividend of Sh0.2 per share a year earlier, saw its net profit rise to Sh10.4 billion from Sh9.9 billion.

The new dividend will be paid on March 27 to shareholders who will be on the register on February 23.

The interim dividend declared last year was the first that the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed company had declared in nine years.

Kenya Power's return to profitability and dividend payments has seen its share price at the NSE rally to Monday's Sh15.2 from lows of below Sh2 in Au...