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BYI Dividend FX Determination Neutral

BYTES TECHNOLOGY GROUP PLC - Notice of dividend currency exchange rate

Bytes Technology Group plc
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What this filing means

Bytes Technology Group has fixed the rand equivalent of its interim dividend: South African-register holders get 73.54677 cents per share, or 58.83742 cents net of the 20% dividend withholding tax, converted at GBP1: ZAR22.28690 taken at 09:00 GMT on 30 October 2026. The 3.3 pence per share interim dividend itself was declared with the half-year results on 13 October 2026; this notice only converts it into rand for the JSE register.

Bytes already told the market in October what its half-year dividend would be — 3.3 pence a share. This notice does the currency arithmetic for people holding the shares on the South African register, so they know the exact rand amount that will land in their account on 20 November. Nothing about the company's trading or prospects has changed here; it is the conversion step, not new news about the business.

AI-generated summary by SENS-AI, based on the original JSE SENS filing.

SENS-AI conclusion

A currency-determination notice, not an economic event. The dividend amount was set with the half-year results on 13 October 2026, and this filing supplies only the exchange rate and the resulting rand figures for the South African register. The filing states that 20% dividend withholding tax applies to South African-register shareholders unless exempt. So what: nothing here changes the investment case; the 6 November record date precedes the 20 November payment, and the half-year results and the CyberOne acquisition remain the substantive disclosures.

The 6 November record date precedes the 20 November payment; once the rate is fixed, no further rand conversion disclosure is needed.

Evidence from the filing

  • Verbatim anchor from the filing, retained so this analysis stays checkable against the source.

    “The interim dividend will be paid on Friday, 20 November 2026 to all ordinary shareholders who are on the register of members at the close of business on the record date of Friday, 6 November 2026.”
Category
Dividend FX Determination
Event posture
No Edge
Published
Oct 30, 2026

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