Dividend
Sampo’s dividend policy is to pay a stable and sustainable regular dividend that grows in line with Group’s earnings over time.
According to Sampo’s dividend policy, total annual dividends paid will be at least 70 per cent of Group’s operational result.
Sampo is committed to operating a strong and efficient balance sheet, as defined by the Group’s capital management framework. To enable this, regular dividends can be complemented with distributions of excess capital via share buybacks and/or extra dividends.
Sampo Group’s operational result is defined as follows:
| P&C operations’ (incl. Sampo plc) profit after tax | |
| - | non-controlling interest in P&C operations |
| - | unrealised gains/losses on investments in P&C operations |
| - | result effect from changes in discount rates in P&C operations |
| - | non-operational amortisations in P&C operations |
| - | non-recurring items |
| + | Mandatum’s dividend |
Dividends 1988-2022
Dividends paid before the introduction of the Euro are expressed in Finnish markka in the table below.
| Accounting year | Original dividend | Total dividend | Dividend including the splits |
| 2022 | 2.60 EUR | 1,320,678,179.60 EUR | 2.60 EUR |
| 2021 | 4.10 EUR | 2,186,371,539.10 EUR | 4.10 EUR |
| 2020 | 1.70 EUR | 944,098,145.00 EUR | 1.70 EUR |
| 2019 | 1.50 EUR* | 833,027,775.00 EUR | 1.50 EUR |
| 2018 | 2.85 EUR | 1,582,752,772.50 EUR | 2.85 EUR |
| 2017 | 2.60 EUR | 1,443,914,810.00 EUR | 2.60 EUR |
| 2016 | 2.30 EUR | 1,288,000,000.00 EUR | 2.30 EUR |
| 2015 | 2.15 EUR | 1,204,000,000.00 EUR | 2.15 EUR |
| 2014 | 1.95 EUR | 1,092,000,000.00 EUR | 1.95 EUR |
| 2013 | 1.65 EUR | 924,000,000.00 EUR | 1.65 EUR |
| 2012 | 1.35 EUR | 756,000,000.00 EUR | 1.35 EUR |
| 2011 | 1.20 EUR | 672,000,000.00 EUR | 1.20 EUR |
| 2010 | 1.15 EUR | 645,474,748.50 EUR | 1.15 EUR |
| 2009 | 1.00 EUR | 561,282,390.00 EUR | 1.00 EUR |
| 2008 | 0.80 EUR | 449,097,912.00 EUR | 0.80 EUR |
| 2007 | 1.20 EUR | 694,237,068.00 EUR | 1.20 EUR |
| 2006 | 1.20 EUR | 692,967,942.00 EUR | 1.20 EUR |
| 2005 | 0.60 EUR | 338,820,309.00 EUR | 0.60 EUR |
| 2004 | 0.20 EUR | 113,156,253.00 EUR | 0.20 EUR |
| 2003 | 1.50 EUR | 831,301,822.50 EUR | 1.50 EUR |
| 2002 | 0.35 EUR | 193,848,853.00 EUR | 0.35 EUR |
| 2001 | 0.75 EUR | 416,717,636.00 EUR | 0.75 EUR |
| 2000 | 8.00 EUR | 888,935,944.00 EUR | 1.60 EUR |
| 1999 | 14.50 FIM | 144,567,614.10 FIM | 0.49 EUR |
| 1998 | 4.80 FIM | 291,840,000.00 FIM | 0.16 EUR |
| 1997 | 3.00 FIM | 182,400,000.00 FIM | 0.10 EUR |
| 1996 | 6.00 FIM | 91,200,000.00 FIM | 0.05 EUR |
| 1995 | 5.00 FIM | 76,000,000.00 FIM | 0.04 EUR |
| 1994 | 4.00 FIM | 60,800,000.00 FIM | 0.03 EUR |
| 1993 | 4.00 FIM | 36,000,000.00 FIM | 0.03 EUR |
| 1992 | - | - | - |
| 1991 | - | - | - |
| 1990 | 2.60 FIM | 23,400,000.00 FIM | 0.02 EUR |
| 1989 | 3.40 FIM | 30,600,000.00 FIM | 0.03 EUR |
| 1988 | 3.00 FIM | 18,000,000.00 FIM | 0.03 EUR |
*In addition, Sampo distributed an extra dividend as Nordea shares. Read more about the extra dividend.
The right to withdraw dividends is valid for three years.
Stock splits
Sampo plc's A share has been split on two occasions. In 1997, the share was split into four shares and in 2001 it was split into five shares.
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