Tag: Fidson Healthcare Plc

 Fidson Healthcare Plc has announced that it will be hosting its 98th Board of Directors meeting on the 28th of July, 2021.

This is according to a disclosure signed by the Company’s secretary, J.A Adebanjo and sent to the Nigerian Exchange Group Limited (NGX).

The meeting is scheduled to consider among other things, the unaudited financial statements of the company for the half year ended 30th of June 2021 (H1, 2021). Sequel to this, the bank will be observing a closed period from 1st of July, 2021 until 24 hours after the unaudited financial statements have been filled with The Exchange.

The closed period will prevent insiders who can influence the share price of the company, e.g. directors, managers, employees etc., from trading in the shares of the company.

In case you missed it: Fidson Healthcare had earlier reported a profit after tax of N579.6 million in the first quarter of the year, indicating a surge of about 281% when compared with the figure posted in corresponding period of last year.

For other details of the meeting, click HERE.

The Board of Directors of Fidson Healthcare Plc has proposed a final dividend of 25 kobo for every share of 50 kobo held by shareholders, amounting to a total of N521.6 million for the year ended 2020.

This is according to a disclosure signed by the company’s secretary, J.A Adebanjo, and sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

According to the notice, dividends will be paid electronically to qualified shareholders’ on 29th of July, 2021. The qualified shareholders are those, whose names appear in the Register of Members as at the close of trading on 7th of July, 2021.  Other qualifying conditions are;

• Shareholders must have completed the e-dividend registration.
• In addition, shareholders must have mandated the Registrar (Meristem Registrars and Probate Limited) to pay their dividend directly into their bank accounts.

What you should know:

• The Bank is expected to discuss this proposed dividend in its Annual General Meeting scheduled to hold on 28th of July, 2021 at Conference Centre, 2nd Floor, Fidson Towers, Lagos.
• The company had earlier reported a profit tax of N1.18 billion in FY 2020, indicating a surge of about 190% YoY.
• The company currently has 2,086,360,250 units of shares outstanding.

For more information about the proposed dividend, click HERE