Fortescue Ltd (ASX: FMG) shares are 0.1% higher at $19.16 while the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is down 0.2% on Friday.
It's a big day for Fortescue shares investors today — here's why.
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Fortescue shares in the green as investors celebrate
Investors in this ASX 200 mining giant are celebrating as their dividends land in their bank accounts on Friday.
Fortescue investors will receive a fully franked final dividend of 60 cents per share today.
Shareholders who elected to participate in the dividend reinvestment plan (DRP) will receive their new Fortescue shares today.
The mining giant has previously announced that the DRP share price this time around will be $18.8233, with no discount.
Fortescue calculated its DRP share price by taking the average of the daily volume weighted average market price of all Fortescue shares traded over five days from 4 September.
Dividend decline for ASX 200 mining share
Fortescue's final dividend for FY25 is 32.6% lower than the final payment in FY24.
The total annual Fortescue dividend was $1.10 per share, representing a 65% payout ratio.
This gives Fortescue shares an annual trailing dividend yield of 5.8%.
What's news with Fortescue?
Fortescue released details of its decarbonisation partnerships this morning.
The company said:
Fortescue is building global alliances – linking the Pilbara's world-leading operational expertise, America's and Australia's research and development strength, the UK's and Europe's innovation and engineering excellence and anchoring it all with scale and cost-efficient manufacturing capability in China and the US.
Fortescue released its 2025 Climate Transition Plan earlier in the week.
The miner said it is working to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in its Australian iron ore operations by 2030.
Fortescue highlighted a number of achievements in FY25 in pursuit of this goal.
These included completing the commissioning of a 100MW solar farm near the Iron Bridge mine as part of a renewable energy network that will eventually power all of Fortescue's mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The miner also commissioned its first electric drill and expanded its fleet of electric excavators to seven units across the Pilbara.
In terms of what's next, the miner will release its 1Q FY26 production report on 23 October, and host its annual general meeting on 31 October.
Re-cap on Fortescue's FY25 results
Fortescue reported record iron ore shipments but a 41% fall in profit for FY25, largely due to lower commodity prices.
FY25 revenue fell 15% to US$15.5 billion, and cost of sales excluding depreciation and amortisation increased 1% to $6.7 billion.
Underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) fell 26% to US$7.9 billion.
The EBITDA margin was 51%, down from 59% in FY24.
Net profit after tax (NPAT) fell 41% to US$3.4 billion.
Fortescue share price snapshot
Fortescue shares have risen 18% over the past six months and fallen 1% over the past 12 months.
