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Sberbank

Sberbank has given forecasts for the main business areas for 2025. The Bank expects growth in lending to individuals by 5%, to legal entities - 9-11%. Commission income growth is expected to be 7-10%. Net interest margin - 5.6%. Cost of risk - 1.5%. Sberbank will maintain capital adequacy at 13.3%, even with the countercyclical surcharge, and will continue p...

Lenta

Lenta has completed the renovation of its existing hypermarket in Chelyabinsk's Gorki shopping mall into an Economy format. Company changed the navigation and display logic and introduced large-format price tags to simplify the customer journey. Assortment of the store includes about 15,000 most popular goods, almost 25% of which are own brands. Main focus i...

Perm Energy Supply Company

Board of Directors of Perm Power Supply Company recommended to pay dividends based on the results of 9 months of 2024 in the amount of ₽20 per ordinary and preferred share. Last day to purchase securities to receive the dividend is January 9, 2025. Dividend yield on common shares may be 8.33%, preferred - 7.8%.

Ozon Pharmaceuticals

Ozon Pharmaceuticals introduced Cruoxaban with the active substance Rivaroxaban - a generic of the best-selling foreign drug. Its sales volume for 9 months of 2024 exceeded ₽13 billion. To date, more than 400 thousand packs of the generic have already been shipped.

Positive Technologies Group

Positive Technologies has entered into a distribution agreement with Mideast Communication Systems, a leading provider of IT and cybersecurity solutions in the Egyptian and African markets. Egypt is among the 12 countries that received the highest score in the Global Cybersecurity Index. According to Positive Technologies experts, the country ranks second in...

Samolet Group of Companies

Developer Samolet plans to reduce the pace of project output in Moscow and the Moscow region in 2025 until pent-up demand recovers. Company will also refrain from increasing its debt against the background of high key rate. Weighted average rate on the loan portfolio of Samolet is currently 12%, including corporate debt.

Fix Price Group

Fix Price's board of directors has declared an interim dividend of ₽35.3137 per ordinary share for 2022, 2023 and 2024. Last day to purchase securities to receive the dividend is December 12, 2024. Dividend yield could be as high as 16.6%.

SmartTechGroup (CarMoney)

Board of Directors of SmartTech Group proposed to the shareholders to increase the authorized capital by issuing new shares. Parameters of the additional issue have not been disclosed yet. In September, Promsvyazbank announced its intention to increase its stake in STG to 25%, including by buying out the additional share issue. Shareholders meeting of SmartT...

Rostelecom

Rostelecom's revenue in 2024 is expected to reach ₽800 billion, said Anna Tregubenkova, Deputy President, Chairman of the Management Board and CFO of the company. Thus, the company achieved ahead of schedule the strategic goal of ₽700 billion in revenue in 2025. In the new strategic cycle until 2030, Rostelecom intends to increase its revenue to more than ₽1...

LUKOIL

Shareholders of LUKOIL approved dividends for 9 months 2024 in the amount of ₽514 per ordinary share. The last day of purchase of securities to receive dividends is December 16, 2024. Dividend yield may amount to 7.65%.