Gazprom shares soar on record profit
Russian gas giant Gazprom’s shares skyrocketed more than 30%
After its board recommended paying dividends on record net profits in the first half of this year.
State-owned Gazprom said the day before that it made a record 2.5 trillion rubles ($41.44 billion) in net profit in the first six months of this year “despite sanctions pressure and an unfavorable external environment.”
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Russian gas giant Gazprom’s shares skyrocketed more than 30% after its board recommended paying dividends on record net profits in the first half of this year.
State-owned Gazprom made a record 2.5 trillion rubles ($41.36 billion) @WSJ finds pic.twitter.com/XQiB4ZiedZ— The_Journalbiz (@the_journalbiz) September 1, 2022
As a result,
Gazprom’s board of directors recommended paying 1.2 trillion rubles at 51.03 rubles ($0.85) per ordinary share in interim dividends.
Gazprom’s announcement saw its shares rise 30% after the stock market opened Wednesday.
- The dollar-denominated RTS index and ruble-denominated Moscow Exchange rose by 3.6% and 4.7%, respectively.
Gazprom canceled a would-be record 1.24-trillion-ruble payout on 2021 dividends in June. That decision, the first time Gazprom had not paid dividends since 1998, dropped the company’s shares 30%.
The company has seen higher profits in recent months, despite the war in Ukraine and Western sanctions, mainly because of soaring energy prices.
