Zenith Bank releases 2025 FY results, posts PBT of 1.26trn, doubles total dividend payout to N10

Zenith Bank PLC has released its audited radical fiscal results for the afloat twelvemonth ended December 31, 2025. The Group’s show demonstrates the Bank’s resolute committedness to delivering businesslike equilibrium expanse growth, operational excellence, and quality to make superior, sustainable returns crossed marketplace cycles.

Commenting connected the results, the Group Managing Director/CEO, Dame Dr. Adaora Umeoji, OON, stated: “Our 2025 results are a reflection of the subject and absorption with which we executed our strategy. We successfully strengthened our plus quality, optimized our equilibrium sheet, and invested successful the capabilities that volition propel our adjacent signifier of growth”.

The Group recorded gross net of NGN4.19 trillion successful 2025, representing a 6% year-on-year maturation from NGN3.97 trillion successful 2024. This was driven by a 35% summation successful involvement income to NGN3.7 trillion, anchored by precocious plus yields, an summation successful involvement earning assets and effectual pricing. Net involvement income grew by 53% to NGN2.6 trillion, highlighting the Bank’s quality to support a steadfast dispersed betwixt plus yields and backing costs. Despite a 5% driblet successful Profit Before Tax to NGN1.26 trillion, owed to a bold and prudent cleanup of facilities which were nether regulatory forbearance, Profit After Tax grew somewhat by 1% to adjacent astatine NGN1.04 trillion, with an Earnings Per Share (EPS) of NGN25.32.

Customer deposits grew by 11% from NGN22 trillion to NGN24 trillion, arsenic a effect of a sustained summation successful some firm and retail deposits, affirming the enduring extent of the Bank’s backing base. Gr...