We are now in the midst of this February's ASX earnings season. We've already heard from some big names over the past week or two, with more ASX 200 stocks joining the list daily.
This morning, another stock gave investors a look at its latest numbers. This particular ASX 200 stock reported double-digit increases across the board, and gave investors a massive 13% dividend hike as a result.
That ASX 200 stock was none other than Seek Ltd (ASX: SEK).
This online classifieds stock certainly has a half-year to remember over the six months to 31 December 2025. As we covered this morning, Seek reported an impressive 21% rise in sales revenues over the period to $647 million. Net revenues increased by 12%, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) surging 19% to $267 million. That enabled Seek to report an adjusted profit of $104 million, up 35%.
Although Seek did ring up a reported net loss of $178 million, this was mostly a result of a $356 million impairment in its stake in Chinese online recruitment platform Zhaopin.
Investors were expecting more, though, it seems. At the time of writing, this ASX 200 stock has retreated 2.1% and is trading at $16.81 share. That's despite initially spiking up to $18.48 this morning.
But let's talk dividends.
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ASX 200 stock reveals 13% dividend hike
In some pleasing news for income investors, Seek reaffirmed its status as one of the ASX 200's best dividend-paying tech stocks this morning by revealing a 13% hike to its next interim dividend. Yep, Seek will pay a 2026 interim dividend worth 27 cents per share this year. As is typical of Seek, this dividend will come with full franking credits attached.
This 27 cents per share dividend is 13% higher than 2025's interim dividend of 24 cents per share. It also represents a meaningful increase over October's final dividend, which was worth 22 cents per share.
Seek has nominated 17 March next month as this payment's ex-dividend date, with pay day then rolling around on 1 April (no joke).
This latest dividend from Seek is a notable one. It is the third interim dividend to be raised from the previous year's levels in a row, as well as being the highest individual dividend the ASX 200 stock has ever declared.
Together with that final dividend from October, worth 22 cents per share, Seek's 12-month dividend total now rises to a record 49 cents per share.
That means that, although Seek currently trades on a trailing dividend yield of 2.73% (at current pricing), we can now give this ASX 200 stock a forward dividend yield of 2.91%.
