Spain’s BBVA sees significant rise in 2022 dividend, Chairman says

MADRID, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Spain’s BBVA (BBVA.MC) expects its 2022 dividend to significantly top the 0.31 euros dividend per share paid out in 2021, Chairman Carlos Torres said in a post on the Spanish bank’s website on Monday.”If we take the consensus on expected profit for the entire year, and considering our 40 to 50 percent payout policy, we expect the dividend in 2022 to clearly exceed the 0.31 euro dividend from 2021, which was already the highest cash dividend we have paid in the past decade,” Torres said.In October, BBVA paid an interim cash dividend of 0.12 euros ($0.1160) per share from its 2022 results, a 50% increase …
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