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voestalpine AGM resolves EUR 1.40 dividend

2018-07-04 | 

voestalpine AG closed the business year 2017/18 with new record figures for revenue and earnings. The technology and industrial goods group thus once again confirms its attractiveness as a profitable investment. At today’s 26th Annual General Meeting, a dividend of EUR 1.40 per (dividend-bearing) share was resolved for the business year 2017/18. The Annual General Meeting thus approved the proposal of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board. The current value represents an increase of no less than 27.3 percent over last year’s EUR 1.10 dividend. It is therefore the sixth year in a row that the company is paying out a higher dividend to its shareholders. The dividend will be transferred from Monday, July 16, 2018 (ex-dividend date: July 12, 2018).

Based on an average voestalpine share price of EUR 44.46 in the business year 2017/18, the dividend yield for this period is 3.1 percent. voestalpine AG has consistently distributed a dividend to its shareholders—i.e. every year—since going public in 1995, in the amount of EUR 2.8 billion in total (including this year’s dividend payment). The dividend yield over the total listing period of almost 23 years is 3.8 percent.

The voestalpine Group’s continuously positive business development is primarily due to its long-term successful orientation towards innovative technologies of the future, consistent cost management, and ongoing internationalization. The Group’s internationalization is also increasingly evident on the shareholder side in the Group’s employee participation plan. With the recent addition of Group companies in Spain and Sweden, this Europe-wide role model has been significantly expanded. The participation plan is now available in 12 countries with almost 150 participating Group companies. A total of 25,700 employees now hold an interest in voestalpine AG, which means that around 14 percent of the share capital is owned by the workforce. This makes the employees the second largest core shareholder of the Group.

El Grupo voestalpine

voestalpine es, en sus áreas de negocio, líder mundial en la fabricación de productos industriales y tecnológicos, con competencia combinada en cuanto a materiales de trabajo y procesamiento. El grupo de empresas, que opera en todo el mundo, cuenta con alrededor de 500 sociedades y emplazamientos en más de 50 países en los cinco continentes. Cotiza en la Bolsa de Viena desde 1995. Con sus soluciones de productos y sistemas de máxima calidad de acero y otros metales, es uno de los socios de negocio más importantes de las industrias europeas del automóvil y de electrodomésticos, así como de la industria aeronáutica, de gas y petróleo en todo el mundo. voestalpine es, además, líder mundial en el mercado de la tecnología de desvíos y en el área de carriles especiales, así como en el del acero para herramientas y perfiles especiales. En el ejercicio 2017/18 el Grupo obtuvo, con un volumen de ventas de alrededor de 13.000 millones de euros, un beneficio operativo (EBITDA) de casi 2.000 millones de euros y contó con una plantilla de unas 51.600 personas en todo el mundo.