UNIQA shares: Attractive investment

UNIQA shares continue to offer attractive returns

Following the successful re-IPO in October 2013 and the resulting sharp increase in liquidity, UNIQA shares have also been listed on Austria’s leading ATX index since 2014. In the first year of the new strategic programme UNIQA 3.0, the UNIQA share price went up sharply during the year. Starting the year at €6.48, it reached its low for the year of €6.30 on 17 February 2021. Subsequently, however, the share price rose steadily and reached its annual high of €8.40 on 5 November 2021. In the end, the UNIQA share closed the 2021 stock market year at €8.07, thereby recording a year-on-year gain of around 26 per cent. The EURO STOXX Insurance, the benchmark index for the European insurance industry, gained around 21 per cent in the same period. Due to the Russian attack on Ukraine, the price of UNIQA shares lost considerably and on 31 March 2022 stood at €7,19.

UNIQA share performance

In €

Shareholder structure unchanged

The shareholder structure of the UNIQA Group continues to be stable: the core shareholder UNIQA Versicherungsverein Privatstiftung (Group) holds a total of 49.0 per cent of the UNIQA shares. Of these, 41.3 per cent belong to Austria Versicherungsverein Beteiligungs-Verwaltungs GmbH, while UNIQA Versicherungsverein Privatstiftung holds 7.7 per cent. Raiffeisen Bank International AG is another core shareholder that holds 10.9 per cent of shares through RZB Versicherungsbeteiligung GmbH. Finally, the core shareholder Collegialität Versicherungsverein Privatstiftung holds 3.0 per cent of the UNIQA shares. The company’s portfolio of treasury shares remains unchanged at 0.7 per cent. The free float amounted to 36.6 per cent by the end of 2021, and therefore represented more than one-third of total shares and a value of around €900 million.

The shares of the three core shareholders are counted together as a result of their pooled voting rights. Reciprocal purchase option rights have also been agreed.

Shareholder structure

Dividend of 55 cents – despite Covid-19 and ongoing restructuring

As we are aware of our responsibility for UNIQA’s long­term sustainable development and the capital invested by our shareholders, it is important to us that UNIQA shareholders enjoy a reasonable portion of the company’s profits. On the basis of the separate financial statements of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, the Management Board will therefore propose to the Annual General Meeting the payment of a dividend of €0.55 per dividend-bearing share for the 2021 financial year. In total, this corresponds to a payout of almost €170 million or a payout ratio of 53.6 per cent.

The new strategic programme, UNIQA 3.0, was presented at the end of 2020 and contains clear operational and financial objectives until 2025. The payout ratio is also an essential element of this: UNIQA plans to distribute between 50 per cent and 60 per cent of the consolidated profit as dividends to shareholders in the years 2021 to 2025.

Changes in the UNIQA dividend

In € (indexed)

In constant dialogue with the financial community

We attach the utmost importance to providing our shareholders, analysts, as well as the entire financial community with regular, comprehensive and up-to-date information about the ongoing performance of the company. To this end, the UNIQA management team was again available in 2021 to answer the questions of investors and analysts at numerous virtual roadshows and banking conferences, and also held a large number of one-on-one meetings during the year. All reports and corporate information can also be accessed online at: www. uniqagroup.com. In addition, our investor relations team is always happy to answer individual questions:

UNIQA Insurance Group AG
Investor Relations
Untere Donaustrasse 21, 1029 Vienna, Austria
Phone: (+43) 01 21175-3773
E-mail: investor.relations@uniqa.at