{"id":114371,"date":"2025-03-30T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=114371"},"modified":"2025-03-30T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:41:20","slug":"bse-shareholders-to-get-free-shares-as-board-approves-21-bonus-share-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=114371","title":{"rendered":"BSE Shareholders To Get Free Shares As Board Approves 2:1 Bonus Share Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The board of Indian stock exchange BSE limited approved a 2:1 bonus share issue, as per the filing on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As per the announcement, the BSE will grant two shares for every one held by shareholders as of the record date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Issue of Bonus equity shares in the ratio 2:1 i.e. 2 (Two) equity shares of Rs 2 each for every 1 (One) full paid-up equity share of Rs 2 each held by the Shareholders of the Company as on the Record Date, subject to the approval of Shareholders through Postal Ballot,&#8221; BSE said in a filing.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second instance when BSE has announce the bonus share issue after its listing in in 2017. The record date is not determined for the latest bonus issue.<\/p>\n<p>As per the filing bonus shares will be issued from and out of Capital Redemption Reserves and General Reserve as available on December 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the filing only investors holding shares of the company before the ex-date will be eligible for the bonus shares.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus shares are usually issued by companies in order to increase their earnings per share (EPS), extend their paid-up capital, and take advantage of free reserves while lowering reserves. Existing stockholders receive these shares at no further expense.<\/p>\n<p>According to publically available information, the exchange announced a dividend of Rs 12 per share in May 2023, with the ex-dividend date on August 4, 2023. Additionally, in June 2024, BSE announced a final dividend of Rs 15 per share, with the ex-dividend date on June 14, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange), is Asia&#8217;s first &amp; the Fastest Stock Exchange in world with the speed of 6 micro seconds and one of India&#8217;s leading exchange groups.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 143 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it an efficient capital-raising platform. Popularly known as BSE, the bourse was established as &#8216;The Native Share &amp; Stock Brokers&#8217; Association&#8217; in 1875. In 2017 BSE become the 1st listed stock exchange of India.<\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe board of Indian stock exchange BSE limited approved a 2:1 bonus share issue, as per the filing on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board of Indian stock exchange BSE limited approved a 2:1 bonus share issue, as per the filing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":114372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 6a4b5deb190636d5f833cb99. Config Timestamp: 2026-07-06 07:48:59 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-07-18 22:21:49 UTC, Optimization Time: 3.38ms -->