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“Zaporozhkoks” earned UAH 400 mln in profit in 2023 and allocated profit for Q1 2024 to dividends

24 June , 2024  

Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke and chemical producers, earned a net profit of UAH 399.840 million in 2023, which it retained as undistributed.

According to the minutes of the general meeting of shareholders held on April 30, a copy of which is available to Interfax-Ukraine, the meeting was attended by both shareholders – Metinvest B. V. (the Netherlands), which owns 57.2347% of the company’s shares, and Zaporizhstal, which owns 42.7653% of the shares.

The meeting approved the report of the Supervisory Board for 2023, recognizing its work as satisfactory. The shareholders also recognized the work of the company’s executive body as satisfactory, took note of the audit results and approved the results of the plant’s financial and economic activities for the past year, determined the procedure for distributing profits and gave preliminary consent to enter into significant transactions.

In addition, they amended the employment contract with the executive director.

According to the minutes of the other general meeting of shareholders of the company held on June 13 this year, a copy of which is also available to the agency, the meeting was attended by both shareholders – Metinvest B. V. (Netherlands) and “Zaporizhstal” Steel Works.

In January-March 2024, the company received a net profit of UAH 289 million 834,763 thousand, which it was decided to allocate to pay dividends for 2024. At the same time, almost UAH 2.43 of dividends are paid per ordinary share.

The Board of Directors of the company (Minutes No. 3 dated June 14, 2024) decided to establish the date of compiling the list of persons entitled to receive dividends, the procedure and term for their payment. The start date of dividend payment is July 1, 2024, and the end date of dividend payment is December 13, 2024 inclusive.

As reported, Zaporozhkoks earned a net profit of UAH 163.576 million in January-September 2023, while the same period in 2022 ended with a net loss of UAH 385.255 million. Retained earnings as of the end of September 2023 amounted to UAH 3 billion 131.849 million.

The plant ended 2022 with a net loss of UAH 249.382 million, while in 2021 it made a net profit of UAH 2 billion 997.541 million. In 2020, the plant increased its net profit by 72.2% year-on-year to UAH 166.436 million.

The company ships its products to the domestic market, Europe, Turkey, and Canada. The structure of chemical sales in 2022 was as follows: 50.4% – domestic market, 49.6% – exports.

“Zaporizhkoks has a full technological cycle of coke and chemical products processing.

Metinvest B. V. (the Netherlands) owns 57.2347% of the company’s shares, while Zaporizhstal owns 42.7653%.

The company’s authorized capital is UAH 1.193 million, with a share price of UAH 0.01.

“Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies. Its major shareholders are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%), which jointly manage the company.

Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.

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