CREDIT AGRICOLE SA: 85% of Crédit Agricole S.A.’s shareholders chose the scrip dividend payment option
07 Juni 2021 - 08:20AM
CREDIT AGRICOLE SA: 85% of Crédit Agricole S.A.’s shareholders
chose the scrip dividend payment option
85%
of Crédit Agricole S.A.’s
shareholders Chose the scrip dividend
payment option
Crédit Agricole S.A.’s Ordinary General Meeting
approved on Wednesday 12 May 2021 an exceptional mechanism for the
payment of the 2020 dividend, €0.80 per share, with a scrip
dividend payment option.
The scrip dividend option was open from Thursday
20 May to Thursday 3 June 2021 inclusive and was taken up by 84.8%
of shareholders, including SAS La Boétie, which represents 55.3% of
capital at 31/03/2021.
The scrip dividend payment resulted in the
issuance of 175,330,851 new ordinary shares that will be delivered
and admitted to trading on Euronext Paris on Wednesday 9 June
2021.
These new shares carry dividend rights as of 1
January 2021 and have the same rights as the existing ordinary
shares in Crédit Agricole S.A. As a result of the transaction, the
share capital now amounts to €9,276,058,473, divided into
3,092,019,491 fully paid up ordinary shares with par value of €3
each.
The cash dividend will be paid on Wednesday 9
June 2021.
Moreover, in accordance with the announcements
made at the time of the publication of Crédit Agricole Group’s 2020
annual results and with the authorization of the European Central
Bank, Crédit Agricole S.A. intends to execute a share buyback
program by the end of the year, for around 560 million euros, in
order to offset Crédit Agricole S.A.’s Earning Per Share impact of
minority shareholders take-up of the scrip dividend payment
option.
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE S.A. PRESS CONTACTS
Charlotte de
Chavagnac + 33 1 57
72 11
17 charlotte.dechavagnac@credit-agricole-sa.frPauline
Vasselle + 33 1 43
23 07
31 pauline.vasselle@credit-agricole-sa.fr
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