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Du announces highest-ever dividend after record 2025 profit
UAE’s second telecom operator said a supportive operating environment and targeted strategic growth initiatives helped grow its revenue by 8.7 per cent to Dh15.9 billion
- PUBLISHED: Mon 9 Feb 2026, 8:34 PM UPDATED: Mon 9 Feb 2026, 11:16 PM
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company’s (du) net profit jumped nearly 17 per cent year-on-year to Dh2.9 billion in 2025, driven by an increased subscriber base and better operational performance.
UAE’s second telecom operator said a supportive operating environment and targeted strategic growth initiatives helped grow its revenue by 8.7 per cent to Dh15.9 billion, exceeding its five to seven per cent guidance range. Its EBITDA grew 13.4 per cent to Dh7.3 billion.
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Following a record profit, the company’s board proposed 40 fils per share for the second half of 2025, bringing total dividend for the year to 64 fils per share, the highest dividend in its history.
In an interview with Khaleej Times, Fahad Al Hassawi, CEO of du, said the strong results are a continuation of the strong performance that the company has been seeing for the last three to five years.
“Du has been consistently growing its topline. In 2025, we saw an 8.7 per cent growth in revenues, coupled with very disciplined cost management and operational efficiency, which resulted in the EBITDA margin expanding by 1.9 percentage points to 46.1 per cent. The favourable mix of revenues enabled us to really take all that benefit to the bottom line. So, we have very strong growth in our net income after royalty,” he said during the interview after the announcement of the results.
Its fixed customer base recorded a 7.8 per cent growth year-over-year, reaching 735,000. Net additions totalled 53,000 over the past 12 months, with growth in both home wireless and fibre broadband services.
In Q4 2025, its mobile customer base grew 8.8 per cent year-over-year, reaching 9.7 million subscribers with 788,000 additions over the past 12 months.
The steady expansion throughout the year was driven by balanced growth across postpaid and prepaid segments as the postpaid subscriber base grew by 9.9 per cent year-over-year to 2 million customers, and the prepaid customer base grew by 8.6 per cent year-over-year to 7.7 million.
Fahad Al Hassawi attributed the increase in subscribers to a combination of population growth and new initiatives taken by the company to increase its market share.
“Everyone knows that the population of the country is growing, either from residents or from tourists visiting the country. This has a positive impact, obviously, on the performance of the company, coupled with the launch of our very successful innovative offering in the market, which attracted strong customer demand,” he said.
In 2025, the company continued to scale up du Pay and expand its cloud, AI, and data centre capabilities and enhanced liquidity through a successful secondary public offering.
Its capex stood at Dh2.3 billion last year, while capital intensity was 14.3 per cent, reflecting the start of the data centre investments ramp-up.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, its net profit grew by 23.8 per cent year-over-year to Dh724 million. While Q4 revenues grew by 10.6 per cent y-o-y to Dh4.3 billion.
