Current Report no. 15 (2025)
Management Board's recommendation re distribution of profit for 2024 and decision on Dividend Reserve created pursuant to resolution no. 6 of the Annual General Meeting of 22 March 2021.
In connection with current reports no. 12/2025 of 13 March 2025 and no. 13/2025 of 17 March 2025, the Management Board of Santander Bank Polska S.A. (Bank) hereby informs you that on 19 March 2025 it issued a recommendation on the distribution of profit for 2024 and the Dividend Reserve created pursuant to resolution no. 6 of the Annual General Meeting of 22 March 2021 (resolution no. 6). The recommendation was positively reviewed by the Bank's Supervisory Board.
In line with the decision taken, the Bank's Management Board recommends that profit of PLN 5,197,479,813.35 earned in 2024 be distributed as follows:
- PLN 3,897,631,915.40 - to be allocated to the dividend for shareholders;
- PLN 104,130,000.00 - to be allocated to the capital reserve;
- PLN 1,195,717,897.95 - is to be kept undistributed.
Moreover, the Management Board recommends that PLN 840,886,574.78 out of the Dividend Reserve created pursuant to resolution no. 6 be allocated to the dividend for shareholders.
The Management Board recommends that 102,189,314 (say: one hundred two million, one hundred eighty-nine thousand and three hundred fourteen) series A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and O shares give entitlement to the dividend to be paid out from the profit earned in 2024 and from the Dividend Reserve (Dividend). The dividend will total PLN 4,738,518,490.18 (of which PLN 3,897,631,915.40 represents 74.99% of the net profit earned in 2024 and PLN 840,886,574.78 represents the amount allocated from the Dividend Reserve).
The Dividend per share will be PLN 46.37.
The Dividend record date will be 13 May 2025.
The Dividend will be paid out on 20 May 2025.
The Bank's Management Board and Supervisory Board will present this proposal along with the recommendation at the next Bank's Annual General Meeting.
When taking its decision, the Management Board took into account the current macroeconomic environment as well as the recommendations and current guidance of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), including that outlined in the KNF's letter of 13 March 2025, of which the Bank informed the market in its current report no. 12/2025 of 13 March 2025 as well as that outlined in the letter of 17 March 2025 confirming the possibility to pay a dividend from the Dividend Reserve of which the Bank informed the market in its current report no. 13/2025 of 17 March 2025.
Legal basis:
Art. 17 (1) MAR.
10:28, 19 Mar 2025