DIVIDENDS
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Dividend resolved by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 2025
For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, held on first call on April 9, 2025, resolved to distribute a dividend totalling 344 million euros, of which 154.152 million euros, equivalent to 0.06 euros per ordinary share, was paid on December 19, 2024 as an interim dividend. The remaining amount of EUR 189.849 million will be paid out as a final dividend for the financial year 2024, at a rate of EUR 0.07383 gross per eligible share at the time of payment. The dividend payout ratio would be 60.00% and earnings per share would amount to € 0.220(*).
The final dividend is expected to be paid on April 24, 2025.
Previous years (**)
For the years ended on 31 December 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014, dividends were paid for an amount of €132 million, €128.6 million, €67.3 million, €16.9 million, €61 million, €34.6 million, €17 million, €19 million and €25 million respectively, equivalent to €0.050, €0.048, €0.025, €0.011, €0.038, €0.021, €0.018, €0.022 and €0.028 per ordinary share respectively, and involving a pay-out ratio of 49.52%, 49.51%, 48.94% (***), 21.7%, 40%, 25.07%, 12.6%, 10.3% and 5.6% respectively. The earnings per share stood at €0.098, €0.095, €0.544, €0.045, €0.095, €0.113, €0.154, €0.202 and €0.532 for the years ended on 31 December 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 respectively.
Dividends paid out in previous years y propuesta 2024
Additional information on dividends
Dividends shall be paid in euros. In accordance with the Law on Corporate Enterprises (Ley de Sociedades), dividends will be declared and paid out pro-rata according to the number of ordinary shares held by each shareholder of the Company. The declared dividends but not yet accrued shall not produce interest.
In accordance with the current tax regulations, paid dividends shall be subject to the tax withholding applicable in Spain.
(*) Earnings per share have been determined by dividing net profit for the year attributable to the Bank by the weighted average number of outstanding shares during the year, excluding the average number of own shares held during the year.
(**) For the year ended on 31 December 2019, it has to be noted that on 27 March 2020, the European Central Bank (ECB), in the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19, issued a recommendation to all the supervised financial institutions on the restriction, at least until 1 October 2020, on the payment of dividends and share buy-backs, in order to reinforce the solvency of banks and to promote their role as key players in the recovery of the economy, facilitating lending, in coordination with the measures promoted by the governments. On 27 July 2020, the European Central Bank issued a new Recommendation where it considered it necessary to extend the recommendation not to pay dividends until 1 January 2021 and not to undertake irrevocable commitment to pay out dividends for the financial years 2019 and 2020. Following the said European Central Bank’s Recommendations, the Company’s General Meeting of Shareholders held on 28 October 2020 resolved to allocate to voluntary reserves the amount of €77,525,284.50 which was initially to be allocated to dividends.
(***) For the sole purpose of comparison with previous years, the consolidated net income for 2021 has been calculated based on pro-forma data and excluding extraordinary adjustments for the impact of badwill due to the integration of Liberbank and labor and commercial network restructuring costs. Excluding these amounts, the pay-out ratio would amount to 6.05%.