Following the stellar rebound from the June multi-year share price lows, the upcoming CSL Ltd (ASX: CSL) dividend is icing on the cake.

In late afternoon trade on Friday, CSL shares were trading for $175.68 apiece. That sees shares in the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) biotech giant up a an eye-popping 90.5% since the stock closed at $92.24 a share on 3 June.

For some context, the ASX 200 has gained 2.5% over this same period.

Talk about outperformance!

But we were talking about the CSL dividend.

The clock is running on the final CSL dividend

CSL reported its full year FY 2026 results on 18 August.

And investors couldn’t have responded more enthusiastically. By the end of the trading day, CSL shares closed up 17.3%.

As for the CSL dividend, management declared an unfranked dividend of $2.277 a share.

Now that’s 7.1% below the FY 2025 final dividend payout. But from a yield perspective, it’s important to remember that, despite the recent supercharged rally, the CSL share price is still down around 17% from this time last year.

Now the stock trades ex-dividend on Wednesday, 9 September. So if you want to bank the upcoming CSL dividend, you’ll need to own shares at market close tomorrow, 8 September.

You can then expect to see that passive income hit your bank account on 2 October.

At the recent share price, this equates to a yield of 1.3%.

Adding in the interim dividend of $1.81 a share, CSL stock trades on an unfranked dividend yield (partly trailing, partly pending) of 2.3%.

Why did the ASX 200 healthcare stock soar on its results?

The big one-day gains posted by the ASX 200 stock following its FY 2026 results release wasn’t driven so much by the past year’s performance, of the final CSL dividend, but by a brighter outlook.

“FY26 has been a year of reset. We have taken decisive action and created a clear path to return to sustainable growth,” CSL interim CEO Gordon Naylor said on the day.

Looking to FY 2027, CSL expects to achieve steady revenue, with underlying NPAT forecast to grow by around 5%.

Are CSL shares still a good buy after surging 90%?

Morgans’ Damien Nguyen recently analysed the outlook for the resurgent ASX 200 biotech stock. And he believes it can keep outperforming (courtesy of The Bull) in FY 2027.

He noted:

CSL is a global healthcare leader with strong competitive advantages across plasma therapies, vaccines and specialty medicines. Demand for its products remain largely independent of economic conditions.

Summarising his buy recommendation, which bodes well for future CSL dividends, he concluded:

In our view, the latest full year result in 2026 is generating confidence that repeated earnings downgrades are behind CSL.

With defensive earnings, global market leadership and attractive long term growth prospects, we view CSL as an appealing investment opportunity.

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Motley Fool contributor Bernd Struben has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia’s parent company Motley Fool Holdings Inc. has positions in and has recommended CSL. The Motley Fool Australia has recommended CSL. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Scott Phillips.

S&P/ASX All Ords Index (ASX: XAO) mining shares typically reward investors with generous dividend payout ratios.

The dividend payout ratio is the percentage of a miner’s earnings paid out to shareholders as dividends. 

Most miners target a percentage range, or a minimum or maximum payout ratio, as part of their standing dividend policy.

For example, the market’s largest miner, BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP), pays a minimum 50% of underlying attributable profit as dividends at each reporting period.

This earnings season, BHP declared a final dividend of 99 US cents for FY26, which equated to a 72% payout ratio.

Many ASX mining shares are paying boosted dividends this season because of higher earnings due to stronger commodity prices.

The final BHP dividend for FY26 was 65% higher than the final dividend for FY25, and the largest final dividend in four years.

BHP shares went ex-dividend last week, along with Fortescue Ltd (ASX: FMG) and Newmont Corporation CDI (ASX: NEM) shares.

This week, nine ASX mining shares go ex-dividend. Among them is Sandfire Resources Ltd (ASX: SFR), which benefited from an 18% increase in the copper price in FY26.

The higher copper price helped enable the miner to declare its first dividend since 2022.

Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX: MIN) benefitted from a 278% surge in the lithium spodumene price and a 7% lift in the iron ore price.

The miner resumed dividends this season after a two-year break.

Genesis Minerals Ltd (ASX: GMD) and other ASX gold miners benefitted from an 18% rise in the gold price.

Genesis Minerals is paying its maiden dividend this season.

ASX mining shares going ex-dividend this week

Remember, in order to receive a dividend, you must buy (or already own) the ASX mining share before its ex-dividend date.

ASX share	Ex-div date	Dividend	Payday
Alkane Resources Ltd (ASX: ALK)	Today	1 cents per share	1 October
Perseus Mining Ltd (ASX: PRU)	Today	9 cents per share	7 October
Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX: MIN)	8 September	83 cents per share	30 September
Evolution Mining Ltd (ASX: EVN)	9 September	21 cents per share	2 October
Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST)	9 September	30 cents per share	15 October
Genesis Minerals Ltd (ASX: GMD)	9 September	5 cents per share	5 October
IGO Ltd (ASX: IGO)	9 September	5 cents per share	30 September
Regis Resources Ltd (ASX: RRL)	10 September	20 cents per share	7 October
Sandfire Resources Ltd (ASX: SFR)	10 September	35 cents per share	30 September

These ASX mining shares are among 40 stocks going ex-dividend this week.

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Motley Fool contributor Bronwyn Allen has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia’s parent company Motley Fool Holdings Inc. has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia has recommended BHP Group. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Scott Phillips.

Reporting season is usually when ASX dividend shares show off. Unfortunately, this August a few of them did the opposite.

Three well-known companies reduced or removed their payouts entirely.

Why these ASX dividend shares reduced their payouts

A dividend cut is not always a distress signal.

Sometimes it reflects a commodity cycle turning over, and sometimes it reflects a board choosing to spend money on the business instead.

However, occasionally it reflects a company that simply has nothing left to pay out with.

All three ASX dividend shares below fall into a different one of those buckets.

1. ASX Ltd (ASX: ASX)

ASX Ltd is the odd one out on this list.

The exchange operator had a strong year, growing operating revenue by 13.3% to $1.25 billion in FY26. Underlying net profit after tax rose 5.2% to $536.4 million.

Shareholders still received less, with the fully franked full-year dividend coming in at 206.5 cents per share, down 7.5% on the prior year.

The explanation is due to the cost line.

Total expenses climbed 21.1% to $557.4 million as the company funded its technology rebuild, the ongoing Accelerate program and one-off costs arising from the ASIC Inquiry.

Guidance points to more of the same, with FY27 expense growth of 18% to 21% and capital expenditure between $180 million and $200 million.

Interim chief executive Darren Yip, said the following:

It has been a highly consequential year for ASX in FY26. In the past 12 months we navigated significant external scrutiny, while continuing to operate critical market infrastructure through an exceptionally active and volatile period for markets. Against that backdrop, we continued to modernise our technology, introduce new products and serve our customers.

2. Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX: WHC)

Whitehaven Coal made the most straightforward dividend cut of the three.

The company’s full-year dividend fell to 10.0 cents fully franked, from 15.0 cents the year before.

That is a reduction of exactly one third.

Underlying net profit after tax dropped to $227 million from $319 million, while revenue slipped 7% to $5.4 billion on an average achieved coal price of A$202 a tonne.

The operations themselves performed well.

Managed run-of-mine production rose 3% to 40.3 million tonnes, at the top end of guidance.

Unit costs fell to $132 a tonne from $139, which makes this a coal price problem.

Chief executive Paul Flynn had the following to say about the dividend cut:

Whitehaven will return up to $159 million of capital to shareholders in respect of FY26, including a fully franked final dividend of 6 cents per share to take the full-year dividend to 10 cents, together with an equivalent amount of capital returned through Whitehaven’s on market share buy-back program.

3. Corporate Travel Management Ltd (ASX: CTD)

Corporate Travel Management did not cut its dividend; rather, it abandoned it.

Payments remain suspended after thirteen months of trading suspension.

The company resumed trading on 3 September and promptly lost around 80% of its value.

FY26 itself was not the problem, with revenue and other income rising 4% to $669.9 million while underlying EBITDA climbed 36% to $113.6 million.

The obstacle is a customer remediation liability forecast near $234 million alongside a modified audit opinion.

Foolish takeaway

A dividend cut tells you what a board thinks about the next twelve months.

On that basis I find Whitehaven the least worrying of these ASX dividend shares, because the cash is still being returned through buybacks.

ASX Ltd is the harder call, since the spending is material but the revenue growth has not yet reached shareholders.

Corporate Travel is not an income stock at all right now.

Income investors should not necessarily panic when one of their holdings cuts their dividends: sometimes there are very good reasons for such an action, other times, it can reveal troubling underlying issues with the company.

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Motley Fool contributor Mark Verhoeven has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia’s parent company Motley Fool Holdings Inc. has positions in and has recommended Corporate Travel Management. The Motley Fool Australia has positions in and has recommended Corporate Travel Management. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Scott Phillips.