Annual Report 2011 - T-Hrvatski Telekom
Annual Report 2011 - T-Hrvatski Telekom
Annual Report 2011 - T-Hrvatski Telekom
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date in early May. The year’s highest price was HRK<br />
315.99, the lowest being HRK 224.05 (Source:<br />
Zagreb Stock Exchange).<br />
In <strong>2011</strong>, T-HT shares underperformed the Dow Jones<br />
Euro Stoxx Telecommunications Index (a leading<br />
indicator of the telecommunications industry that<br />
measures the performance of some Europe’s largest<br />
telecom companies) by 10 percentage points, having<br />
outperformed it for the previous two years.<br />
Although its turnover was around 15% lower than in<br />
2010, T-HT was once again the most traded share<br />
on the Zagreb Stock Exchange, with HRK 1.3 billion<br />
of turnover, accounting for 24.1% of the ZSE’s total<br />
trade by value of shares in <strong>2011</strong> (2010: HRK 1.5<br />
billion, 25.8%).<br />
As at 31 December <strong>2011</strong>, T-HT was the second<br />
largest company on ZSE, with a market capitalisation<br />
HRK 19.8 billion (EUR 2.63 billion) representing<br />
15.2% of the total market capitalization by value<br />
(Source: Zagreb Stock Exchange).<br />
At the last revision of the CROBEX index, T-HT’s<br />
weighting was set at 15% of the index.<br />
Besides T-HT shares being listed on the Official<br />
Market of the Zagreb Stock Exchange, Global<br />
Depositary Receipts (GDRs), each representing one<br />
T-HT Share, are traded on London Stock Exchange.<br />
In October, at the 21 st annual conference of the<br />
Zagreb Stock Exchange, T-HT accepted the second<br />
place award for Investor Relations in Croatia <strong>2011</strong><br />
sponsored by popular business newspaper Poslovni<br />
dnevnik (2010: first place award for best IR. )<br />
Dividend policy<br />
The Dividend policy of the Company was set out in<br />
the prospectus that accompanied its Initial Public<br />
Offering in October 2007:<br />
The future dividend policy should be that any<br />
dividends declared and paid in respect of any year<br />
following the year in which Offering takes place,<br />
shall range from 50% to 100% of the Company’s<br />
distributable profits earned in the immediately<br />
preceding year. Any annual dividend shall depend<br />
on the overall financial position of the Company<br />
and its working capital needs at the relevant time<br />
(including but not limited to the Company’s business<br />
prospects, cash requirements, financial performance,<br />
and other factors including tax and regulatory<br />
considerations, payment practices of other European<br />
telecommunications operators and general economic<br />
climate).<br />
Dividend for the 2010 financial year<br />
On 4 May <strong>2011</strong>, the General Assembly of the<br />
Company approved a dividend payment to<br />
shareholders of HRK 1,863,783,056.60 (HRK 22.76<br />
per share), representing a dividend payout ratio of<br />
100%. The dividend was paid in second half of May<br />
<strong>2011</strong>.<br />
At the end of <strong>2011</strong>, this represented a dividend yield<br />
of 9.4% on T-HT’s closing price of HRK 242.00. Using<br />
the average closing share price over <strong>2011</strong>, HRK<br />
265.56, the dividend yield was 8.6%.<br />
Introduction