Dividend

The Group’s priority is to ensure a regular increase in the remuneration of its shareholders, while preserving sufficient self-financing capacity to enable investment as required and to ensure the Group’s development. As a result, the Group intends to pursue its policy of steady dividend growth for its shareholders.

Confident in its long-term prospects, the Group confirms its commitment to shareholder return and distribute a dividend of €0.50 per share for the 2022 financial year, following the approval by the General Meeting on 27 April 2023. This dividend represents a total distribution of €275M in 2023 and an amount of nearly  €1,3 Bn in dividends distributed to shareholders since 2008.

A sustainable dividend policy

Evolution of the dividend for each financial year since the 1st distribution in 2008

In €

Income tax

The French 2018 Finance Act introduced a mandatory deduction on account which will be levied at a rate of 12.8% on dividends for private individuals who are French tax residents. An exemption is available to households where the reference taxable income is lower than €50,000 (for a single person) or €75,000 (couples subject to joint taxation) for the penultimate year preceding the year in which the income is received, by making a request, accompanied by a sworn statement, to their bank by November 30 of the year prior to the receipt of the income at the latest.

For registered shareholders (for French tax residents only)

Application form for exemption from mandatory deduction on dividends in 2023

For bearer shareholders

Please contact your financial intermediary or financial adviser.

The information above corresponds to the French 2018 Finance Act published in the Journal Officiel of the 31 December 2017. This information relates to private individuals who are French tax residents. It is merely a summary of the tax regime, purely illustrative and subject to change as part of regulatory changes at any time. For information on taxation applicable to your personal situation, you should contact your financial advisor.