At the end of the financial year, the market is often bullish. This occurs on the belief that mutual funds will beautify year-end reports by pulling up stock prices for the sake of shareholders.
International capital has flowed into many Vietnamese banks in 2022, which is a good sign indicating the capacity of domestic joint stock commercial banks.
Many stocks have been rising over the last three weeks, but shareholders of several property stocks have been trying to lower the price in order to lure investors.
All commercial banks are planning to increase their capital greatly in coming years, in which the stock dividend will still be the mainstream. However, it is still a distant dream that shareholders will receive dividends in cash in the near future.
At the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, it was decided that all banks would issue billions of additional shares to pay for dividends in 2022. This decision will inadvertently put pressure on bank stocks.
The last trading sessions on the stock market in Vietnam in 2021 witnessed the old trick of spreading bad news for the purpose of devaluing stocks and buying cheaper shares, which also led to several investors suffering heavy losses.
Many commercial banks have submitted to their shareholders and proposed to increase charter capital in the context that credit growth must ensure capital adequacy ratio (CAR) following the international standards Basel II.
To prepare for the upcoming annual general meetings, many commercial banks have submitted to shareholders their dividend payout plans. Accordingly, many commercial banks offer extremely high dividends this year.
From the beginning of this year to now, the share listing plans of commercial banks have been extremely quiet, currently, many banks have changed their listing routes.
Vietjet said it continues to pay the interim dividend for 2018 at the ratio of 20 percent in cash after its shareholders have been paid dividends in shares at a ratio of 20 percent.
Development Investment Construction Joint Stock Corp (DIG)’s shareholders have approved its plan to issue 14.3 million shares in the second and third quarters of 2018.
Thanh Cong Tourist Joint Stock company’s shareholders (VNG) approved its plan to issue 54million shares aiming to increase its chartered capital up to VND 797.2billion to VND 1,337billion.
Shareholders of Vietnam Airlines will gather at the annual general meeting in Hanoi on May 10, the third one since the company completed equitisation in 2015, to discuss a series of important issues including the modification of the internal management regulations.
The Saigon Hanoi Securities Co. (SHS)’s shareholders have approved the plan to issue shares aiming to increase its chartered capital up to VND 2,070 billion.
HCMC Investment Infrastructure Joint Stock Company (CII) announced, the Phillipines-based VIP Infrastructure Holdings Pte.Ltd has registered to sell 6.3 million shares of CII in one month starting October 30.
Thanh Nam Group JSC (TNI) will organize an unscheduled shareholders’ meeting on September 19, aiming to announce the selling of 31.5 million shares for its current shareholders with a cost of VND 10,000 per share and to mobilize VND 315 billion.
The Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Maritime Bank) has failed to get approval from shareholders to trade its shares on the stock exchanges.