For 2022, Viel & Cie has announced a 44.3% increase in net income (group share) to 73.6 million euros, and a 1.3 point improvement in operating margin to 9.9%, on sales up 15.7% to 989.6 million (+10.1% at constant exchange rates).
At the start of 2023, the Group expects business levels in its professional brokerage business (Compagnie Financière Tradition) to be "in line with the previous year", and in its online brokerage business (Bourse Direct) to be "sustained".
A cash dividend of 35 euro cents per share will be proposed to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on June 8, compared with 30 cents for 2021.
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Viel & Cie is an investment company specializing in acquiring long-term shares in companies operating in the finance sector. Net sales break down by sector of activity as follows:
- professional intermediation (95.2%; Compagnie Financière Tradition): intermediation in interest and exchange products (monetary products, interest and exchange rate derivatives, credit derivatives, exchange options), in securities and security derivatives (stocks, stock and index derivatives, bonds, etc.), and in the raw material and energy markets (precious metals, coal, oil, electricity, natural gas, paper pulp);
- online brokerage (4.8%; Bourse Direct).
The group also holds a 40% share in SwissLife Banque Privée.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Europe/Middle East/Africa (46.2%), Americas (29.8%) and Asia/Pacific (24%).
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