Until only a few days ago, Inditex was the most powerful IBEX 35 company, until it presented Your financial results. Despite having achieved net record benefits with 5,866 million euros, investors considered it insufficient and They sank the value of their actions.
Despite this “inconvenience”, Amancio Ortega, founder of Inditex, will obtain annual dividends of 3,104 million euros, as a holder of 59.294% of the company’s shares. That means receiving some 8.5 million euros a day without even stepping on the Inditex offices in Arteixo. This is one of the reasons why Amancio Ortega has entered the Top 10 of the world’s greatest fortunes.
Inditex dividends
The Net benefits from Inditex During 2024 they increased by 9% compared to the exercise of 2023, which will allow the textile giant to distribute dividends in 2025 with the same increase. That leaves an assessment of 1.68 euros per sharecompared to 1.54 euros per share that Inditex’s shareholders received in 2024. That will mean a Total disbursement for Inditex of 5,236 million euros that will go directly to the pockets of their shareholders.
Taking into account that Amancio Ortega controls 59,294%of the company through its companies Pontegadea Inversiones (50.010%) and Partler 2006 (9,284%). They leave him with a total of 1,848 million inditex shares that will report some dividends of 3.104 million euros in two payments 50%: the first half in May and the rest in November.
Inditex continues with its upward streak in the cast of its dividends of the last two decadesin which every year it has distributed more dividends than the previous year, except for 2020 that, due to the pandemic, its streak was interrupted.
Only in the last decade, Amancio Ortega has tripled the dividends he has received from Inditex. To put it in context, the textile giant will pay Amancio Ortega in 2025 for dividends, 98.55 euros per second. That is about 5,913, 24 euros per minute or 354,794 euros per hour of 2025.
More income for Pontegadea
In the last 25 years, the company has distributed about 39.3 billion euros in dividends, of which 23,265 million have gone to Amancio Ortega Or, rather, for your two investment companies.
During the last two decades, Amancio Ortega has been reinviring 100% of the dividends he received from Inditex in buildings and properties managing through Your real estate will be put.
Thanks to this annual injection of debt -free capital, Amancio Ortega has built its second empire based on the brick and energy business, achieving an advantage over its competitors, which did have to assume debt or sell assets to continue growing.
During 2024, Pontegadea made a total of six purchase operations for a value of 1,200 million euros. The Last assessment of assets The company is from the beginning of 2024 and already estimated at more than 18,220 million euros, so it is expected that in 2025 there will be a revaluation above 19,000 million, despite the depreciation of assets of the assets of Pontegadea in the United Kingdom and the US for inflation and interest rates.
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