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MGKL

MGCL's revenue for January 2025 amounted to ₽715 million, up 4.7 times year-on-year. Portfolio of collateralized loans in the pawnshop line of business and commodity balances in resale increased by 70% and exceeded ₽2 billion. Share of commodities held in the portfolio for more than 90 days decreased to a minimum of 6%.

SPB Exchange

Trading volume of Russian securities on SPB Exchange for 2024 amounted to ₽48.71 billion, up 77% year-on-year. Number of unique investors increased by 46.57% to 32.29 million. In 2024, the Exchange admitted 125 securities of Russian companies to trading and placed 24 DFA issues worth ₽13.45 billion. In the current year, SPX Exchange will continue to increase...

Ashinskiy metallurgical works

Moscow Exchange will stop trading in shares of Ashinskiy Metzavod from March 15. Last day of trades in T+1 stack will be March 12. Earlier, Ural-VK announced a forced buyout of shares of Ashinskiy Metzavod from minority shareholders at ₽71 per paper.

SmartTechGroup (CarMoney)

Smarttechgroup is preparing to update its dividend policy. New dividend amount will be no less than 50% of the year-end profit, which is one of the conditions of the strategic partnership with Promsvyazbank. Current dividend policy provides for 25% to 50% of RAS profit to be allocated for dividends, but the company has never paid them.

Far-Eastern Shipping Company

Fesco increased container transportation from China through land rail border crossings by 66% year-on-year to 53 thousand TEU in 2024. Main cargoes were consumer goods, which accounted for 63%, automobiles and components - 23%, household appliances and electronics -14%.

Unipro

Electricity generation by Unipro's power plants in 2024 amounted to 56.75 billion kW⋅h, up 0.4% from 56.55 billion kW⋅h a year earlier. Heat energy production increased by 2.9% to 1,982 thousand Gcal.

SmartTechGroup (CarMoney)

Smarttechgroup has unveiled its growth strategy for 2025-2028. Company intends to increase net profit to ₽2.9 billion, revenue to ₽20.5 billion, portfolio to ₽43.2 billion, number of customers to 470,000, and capital target of ₽9.2 billion, including dividend payments. Achievement of this goal is planned to be achieved both by scaling the business and throug...

Astra

Astra Group distributed 464,186 quasi-treasury shares to management and key employees as part of the first stage of the incentive program. Its total budget for 2024-2025 is about 1% of the company's authorized capital. Management's key objective under the incentive program is to triple net income in 2025 relative to 2023. Another 920 thousand shares were use...

O'Key Group

O'Key's net retail revenue for 2024 increased 5.5% to ₽217.13 billion. YES! discounters' revenue increased 13.3% to ₽72.34 billion, while LFL sales increased 8%, average check increased 8.7% and traffic decreased 0.7%. Hypermarkets revenue increased 2% to ₽144.78 billion, LFL sales increased 2.3%, average check increased 6.8%, and traffic decreased 4.2%. The...

Ashinskiy metallurgical works

Ural-VK JSC has submitted a request to buy back shares of Ashinskiy Metzavod from minority shareholders at ₽71 per share. Date of closing of the register for the buyback of shares is March 17, 2025.