Alekperov tops Forbes list for highest dividends in 2026
The top five include Gazprom with a net profit of 1.3484 trillion rubles, Rosneft with 544 billion rubles (in 2024 - 1.341 trillion rubles), and VTB with 502.1 billion rubles (last year - 551.4 billion rubles).
Consensus
- Forbes published a list of 75 Russians with the largest dividend payouts in 2026.
- Vagit Alekperov received 106.2 billion rubles in dividends from Lukoil.
- Leonid Mikhailson and his family received 87.1 billion rubles in dividends from Novatek and Sibur.
- Gennady Timchenko received 71.5 billion rubles in dividends from Novatek and SiBur.
- The list includes 75 Russian individuals who received the highest dividend payments in 2026.
- The dividend payouts were attributed to the companies Novatek, SiBur, and Lukoil.
Points of divergence
- The Russian Ministry of Finance announced that passive income, including dividends, will be taxed at rates from 13% to 22%, depending on the income size, and that this change could bring over 100 billion rubles in state revenue. — vedomosti
- The list includes Vladimir Potanin (35.9 billion rubles), Leonid Fedun (34.9 billion rubles), Vladimir Lisin (34 billion rubles), and German Khan (31 billion rubles) in the top 75. — vesti
- The list includes 75 Russians who received the largest dividend payments in 2026. — kommeresant
Coverage (9 sources)
- Sberbank led the Forbes ranking of most profitable companies — Коммерсантъ
- Forbes: Sber led the ranking of Russia's most profitable companies — Вечерняя Москва
- Forbes named the leader of the rating of the most profitable companies of Russia — Вести
- Forbes published a ranking of the most profitable companies in Russia — Москва 24
- Russian billionaires paid themselves 1.2 trillion rubles in dividends — The Moscow Times
- Vagit Alekperov headed Forbes list of largest dividends — Ведомости
- Alekperov led Forbes top-75 by largest dividend amounts — Вести
- Forbes presented a ranking of 75 Russians with the largest paid dividends in 2026. — ТАСС (Telegram)
- Vagit Alekperov led Forbes ranking for largest dividend sums — Коммерсантъ
Key entities
- Forbes
- Vagita Alekperova
- Russia
- LUKOIL
- Gazprom
- Sber
- Leonid Mikheev
- Moscow
- Sberbank
- Novatek
- Rosneft
- Alekperov
- News.ru
- MSFO
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