{"id":1666066,"date":"2022-09-30T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666066"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:57:48","slug":"gazprom-shareholders-approve-record-21-billion-dividend-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gazprom-shareholders-approve-record-21-billion-dividend-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazprom shareholders approve record $21 billion dividend payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgazprom-shareholders-approve-record-21-billion-dividend-payout%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666066&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -Gazprom shareholders backed Russia\u2019s biggest ever dividend payout totalling 1.208 trillion roubles ($21 billion)<\/p>\n<p>at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the state-controlled gas giant on Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Shareholders backed an interim dividend of 51.03 roubles ($0.8921) per share, the gas producer said in a regulatory disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The total payout is the highest in Russian corporate history.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Gazprom initially rose by around 5% after the announcement before reversing course to trade down by about 2% at 1020 GMT, following the wider Moscow stock exchange lower. <\/p>\n<p>Gazprom shareholders in June unexpectedly decided not to pay dividends on last year\u2019s results, doing so for the first time since 1998. <\/p>\n<p>Dividends offer retail investors a way to profit at a time when Western sanctions have hit the value of Russian companies. <\/p>\n<p>VTB Moi Investitsii brokerage said retail investors may cash in some 144 billion roubles from the dividend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect the second-half 2022 dividend may reach some 10.3 roubles (per share) with dividend yield of 4.7% due to exports decline,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Gazprom\u2019s gas exports to Europe, its key source of revenue, have been falling amid Russia\u2019s standoff with the West. Russian gas exports capabilities were severely hit this week following ruptures at offshore Nord Stream pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 57.0000 roubles)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by Jason Neely and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/gazprom-shareholders-approve-record\/attachment\/file-photo-the-logo-of-gazprom-is-displayed-on-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T0HE-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T0HE-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -Gazprom shareholders backed Russia\u2019s biggest ever dividend payout totalling 1.208 trillion roubles ($21 billion) at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the state-controlled gas giant on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}