Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) is expected to pay dividends to existing shareholders at the rate of 20.5% in shares, of which 10% for 2019 and 10.5% for 2020.

At the 2020 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, SHB was approved to pay stock dividends from the bank’s profit in 2019 at the rate of 10%. With the business results achieved in 2020, SHB is planning to submit to the General Meeting of Shareholders for approval the plan of dividend payment from profit of 2020 at the rate of 10.5%. Thus, SHB shareholders can receive dividends up to 20.5% in 2021.

After completing the dividend payment, SHB’s charter capital will increase to nearly 21,300 billion dong (equivalent to an increase of 21% compared to the current charter capital).

The increase in charter capital is part of SHB’s development roadmap with the aim of improving financial capacity, investing in modern information technology system, improving safety ratios according to Basel II standards and towards compliance of Basel III.

In the market, SHB is one of the few banks that regularly pays dividends to shareholders at an attractive rate every year, especially in the period when SHB has to put resources to resolve outstanding problems of the merger with Habubank. SHB’s dividend payment history: for the period 2013-2016: 7-8%/year; for the period 2017-2020:>10%/year, in which, the rate of paid dividend of 2017 and 2018 was 20.9%. The rate of dividend payment of 2019 and 2020 is expected to be 20.5% (paid in 2021).

SHB’s dividend payment history over the years

Recently, SHB has announced its business plan for 2021 with an impressive growth of more than 70%, expected to reach VND 5,800 billion. This plan has been built by SHB on a solid growth foundation for many years. The year 2021 will be a strong step forward, opening up a spectacular breakthrough period, the profitability ratios will be significantly improved and the interests of shareholders will be further enhanced corresponding to the business results the bank achieves.

SHB’s stock price is currently accumulating around the threshold of 18.x, forward P/B of 2021 is 1.1x, quite cheap compared to the current P/B of 1.5x of the banking sector. Trend indicators are in a positive state, ready to break out to create a new uptrend wave.