The Plus500 Board announces the amounts of dividends and the amounts of dividends per share for the years 2021 and 2020 declared and distributed by the Company's Board of Directors are as follows:
|
Date of declaration |
Amount of dividend (US $ in millions)* |
Amount of dividend per share (US $) |
Date of payment to Shareholders |
|
12 February 2020 |
40.6 |
0.3767 |
13 July 2020 |
|
11 August 2020 |
101.0 |
0.9531 |
11 November 2020 |
|
17 February 2021 |
84.9 |
0.8292 |
12 July 2021 |
Other financial highlights include:
Significant positive financial and operational momentum achieved in H1 2021, with performance ahead of pre-pandemic levels:
- Group revenue of $346.2m (H1 2020: $564.2m; H2 2020: $308.3m)
- EBITDA of $187.6m (H1 2020: $361.8m; H2 2020: $154.1m)
- 136,980 New Customers onboarded (H1 2020: 198,176; H2 2020: 96,552)
- Further increase in base of Active Customers to 333,940 (H1 2020: 328,409; H2 2020: 278,566)
Further attractive returns delivered to shareholders:
- New share buyback programme of $12.6m announced today
- $42.5m invested in two share buyback programmes completed during the period
- Enabled by continued strong operating cash conversion of 87%, with cash balances of $722.5m at the end of H1 2021 (H1 2020: $587.8m, H2 2020: $593.9m)
