Dividend
Dividend policy is an element of the development strategy of the Capital Group of Grupa KĘTY S.A. announced for a relevant period. The current dividend policy is described in the Outlook section of this report.
Starting from 2001, Grupa KĘTY S.A. has paid dividend on a regular basis. In 2022, the Company paid out PLN 505,378,460.24 dividend (growth by over 17% compared to the preceding year), i.e. PLN 52.37 per share, which represented approximately 85% of the consolidated net profit for 2021. The dividend record day was set for 11 July 2022, whereas the dividend payment date was set for 2 August 2022 (the amount of PLN 168,395,152.40, i.e. PLN 17.45 per share) and 11 October 2022 (the amount PLN 336,983,307.84, i.e. PLN 34.92 per share).
By the date of preparing this report, the Management Board of Grupa KĘTY S.A. had not passed a resolution on recommending to the General Meeting the distribution of the net profit generated by the Company in 2022, or dividend payment. The final decision regarding the dividend payment is made each year by the Annual General Meeting.
The chart below presents the values of dividend paid out by Grupa KĘTY S.A. in the last five years, as well as the amount of dividend per share. In that period, the value of dividend per share more than doubled, growing from PLN 23.94 in 2018 to PLN 52.37 in 2022, whereas the total value of profit paid out in the form of dividends in the years 2018-2022 amounted to over PLN 1.7 billion.