Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) will distribute tomorrow a €50 million interim dividend charged to the 2006 consolidated results, which represents € 0,598 per share, an increase of 105% in respect to the 2005 interim dividend.
This dividend payment will be effective before January 30 2007. In the past the interim dividend paid by BME has usually accounted for approximately half the total ordinary dividend.
Over the course of the last 4 years, BME has distributed € 459.2 million in ordinary and extraordinary dividends. Its annual payout, that is, the percentage of profits paid by the company as dividends, has been much higher than that of other European sector companies.
BME’s net profit in the first 9 months of the year 2006 came in at € 92.15 million, 22.9% up on the € 74.98 million posted during the same period in 2005.
