IC Market Espresso 24 Jun 2022

 
Sava Re Approves EUR 1.5 DPS

At the share price before the announcement, the DY would amount to 5.28%. Ex-date is set for 11 July 2022.

Sava Re has published the resolutions of its GSM held yesterday, 23 June 2022. According to the report, the dividend payment in the amount of EUR 23.2m would be paid out, representing a payout ratio of app. 30%. This would amount to a EUR 1.5 dividend per share, which at the share price before the dividend’s initial proposal would amount to a DY of 5.28%. The ex-date is set for 11 July 2022, while the payment date is set for 12 July 2022.

In the graph below, we provide you with the historical dividends per share and dividend yields of the Company.

Dividend per share (EUR) and dividend yield (%) (2014 – 2022)

Atlantic Grupa Went Ex-date

Yesterday, Atlantic Grupa shares went ex-date. After the market’s closing, the stock decreased by -3.11%.

Yesterday, 23 June 2022, Atlantic Grupa’s share went ex-date, causing the stock to decrease by -3.11% and ending the trading day at HRK 1.560 per share.

As a reminder, on 15 June 2022, Atlantic Grupa held the GSM where the shareholders approved the dividend payment of HRK 50 per share, out of the retained earnings realized by the Company in the 2020 business year. We would also like to note that this would amount to a DY of 3.14%. The payment date is set for 5 July 2022.

At the same GSM meeting, Atlantic Grupa also announced the approval of its share split plan, according to which 1 current share will be split into 4 new shares, with the date of this taking effect yet to be announced.

Below we provide you with a historical overview of the company’s dividend per share and dividend yields.

Atlantic Grupa dividend per share (HRK) and dividend yields (%) (2013 – 2022)

NAV of Croatian Mutual Funds – May 2022

At the end of May 2022, the NAV of Croatian mutual funds decreased by -2.4% MoM and amounted to HRK 17.1bn. On a YoY basis, this would mean amount to a decline of -13.6%, while on a YTD basis, the decline is even more profound, at -20.4%.

The Croatian Agency for the Supervision of Financial Institutions (HANFA) has published a monthly report on the changes recorded in the financial markets for May 2022. As the Croatian mutual funds have a major role in the Croatian financial markets, an overview of their performance can give us some insights into how the market is doing. At the end of May 2022, the NAV of the Croatian mutual funds amounted to HRK 17.1bn, which is a decrease of -2.4% MoM, -13.6% YoY, and -20.4% YTD.

This trend of the decline in NAV started at the end of 2021, as the uncertainty regarding the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic’s newest variant, Omicron, inflation, and the subsequent measures were slowing already slowing down investments. As the situation only got worse for the entire markets since then, with high inflation rates, exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Central banks across the world (most prominently Fed and ECB) have already started raising or are planning to start raising interest rates to combat this inflation. As this has a direct negative impact on the equity and bond markets, the decline in the assets of the mutual funds is to be expected.

To be more specific, the NAV of the Croatian mutual funds decreased by HRK -4.38bn since the beginning of the year. If we were to break this down by the asset class, the largest decrease by far was recorded in bond holdings, whose value decreased by -23.7%, or HRK -2.92bn YTD. Next up, we have deposits and cash, which lost -16.5% or HRK -801.7m of its value since the beginning of the year. Finally, we have shares, which lost -13.7% or HRK -355m of their total value since the beginning of the year. As a matter of fact, on a YTD basis, all asset classes lost value since the beginning of the year, showing that not only investments into asset classes across the board decreased, but people also pulled a significant amount of money out of these investments funds themselves. This is supported if we were to look at the net contributions into these funds, amounting to a decrease of HRK -281.7m in May 2022.

On a MoM basis, the story is similar but there are some differences. Bonds still maintain the highest absolute decline, at -5.7% or HRK -566.2m, followed by shares at -2.3% or HRK -52.4m, while investments into the money market and investments funds both experienced similar absolute decreases, of app. HRK -26.7m and HRK -26.4m, respectively. On the flip side, the only asset class to experience an increase was the deposits and cash, which grew by HRK 290.1m. If we were to combine this with the aforementioned decrease in net contributions, it can be surmised that there are major disinvestments into the majority of the asset classes, except the one with the lowest perceived risk, i.e. deposits and cash.

Furthermore, if we were to take a look at the asset structure of the mutual funds, bonds still remain the largest asset class as a % of the total, at 53.2%. However, this represents a decline of -2% MoM, -4.5% YoY, and -3% YTD. The remainder of the asset classes has remained roughly the same as a percentage, with the only exception being deposits and cash, which increased its holdings by 2.1 p.p. MoM to 22.9%.

Croatian mutual funds AUM structure (May 2022, %)

Looking at the investments of these funds into equity specifically, investments into domestic equity (which accounts for 27.2% of all equity investments) were down -15% YoY, -3.7% MoM. Meanwhile, investments into foreign equity holdings, which account for the remaining 72.8% of all equity investments, were down -31% YoY, and -5% MoM.

Total assets of all Croatian UCITS funds (2015 – May 2022, EURm)

Upcoming Events – June 2022

Here you can find the dates for the upcoming events of the regional companies.

wdt_ID Date Ticker Announcement Country
13 24.06.2022. KOEI Ex-dividend date Croatia
14 24.06.2022. NLBR Ex-dividend date Slovenia
15 24.06.2022. CICG Dividend payment Slovenia
16 25.06.2022. TRP Half-yearly financial statements 2022 Romania
17 26.06.2022. TRP Conference call – H1 financial results Romania

Due to the nature of these events, they are subject to change (might be postponed or canceled).