UNIQA shares: Strong dividend yield

UNIQA share included in ATX Top Dividend

Following the successful reIPO 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 2022, the second year of the new strategic programme UNIQA 3.0, the UNIQA share price fell somewhat overall during the year. Having started the year at €8.10, the share price climbed rapidly to reach its highest point for the year of €8.48 by 17 January 2022. However, it subsequently fell, not least due to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, and reached its low for the year of €5.99 on 29 September 2022. In the end, the UNIQA share closed the 2022 stock market year at €7.00, thereby recording a year-on-year decline of around 14 per cent. The EURO STOXX Insurance, the benchmark index for the European insurance industry, rose by around 3 per cent in the same period, while the ATX actually fell by more than 19 per cent. On 19 December 2022, the UNIQA share was included in the ATX Top Dividend – the index of the Vienna Stock Exchange featuring the 15 equities with the highest dividend yield. At the beginning of 2023, the price of UNIQA shares also rose again and was at €8.23 on 10 March 2023.

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 3.3 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 36.1 per cent by the end of 2022, and therefore represented more than one-third of total shares and a value of just under €800 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 €0.55 proposed

As we are aware of our responsibility for UNIQA’s long-term 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 2022 financial year. In total, this corresponds to a payout of almost €170 million.

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 regarding the company’s ongoing performance. To this end, the UNIQA management team was once again available in 2022 to answer the questions of investors and analysts at numerous virtual roadshows, banking conferences and one-on-one meetings. 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