HCMC – PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Services Corporation (HOSE: PVD) will close the list of shareholders on October 1 to pay a 5% cash dividend for 2024.
Each shareholder will receive VND500 for every share held, with the company expected to spend around VND278 billion on the payment, given its nearly 556 million outstanding shares.
The ex-dividend date is set for September 30, while the payment is scheduled for October 17.
Closing the trading session today September 11, PVD shares edged up 0.66% to VND22,850, with over 11.68 million shares changing hands.
The VN-Index added 14.49 points, or 0.88%, to close at 1,657.75 points, with 163 advancers and 152 decliners.
Trading volume reached over 1.27 billion shares worth VND36.63 trillion, up 27% in volume and 22.77% in value compared to the previous session. Block deals contributed more than 75.2 million shares worth VND1.99 trillion.
Bluechips led the recovery, as the VN30 basket rose 26.5 points with 20 gainers and only eight decliners. Vingroup-related stocks were the main drivers, with VHM climbing 4% and VIC up 3.9%, together contributing nearly 8.5 points to the index.
In the banking sector, LPB jumped 4.9% to VND44,000 per share with nearly four million shares traded, while ACB dipped 1.3%. SHB was the most actively traded stock on the market with more than 88.7 million shares, closing at its intraday high.
Steel stocks staged strong gains, led by NKG hitting the ceiling price of VND19,150 with a matching volume of 38.7 million shares.
In the securities group, trading remained lackluster, though losses narrowed. SSI stood flat at the reference price with nearly 86 million shares traded, while VIX fell 2.8% with 44.95 million shares matched.
On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index edged down 0.42 points, or 0.15%, to 274.18 points, with 72 winners and 69 losers. Trading volume reached nearly 120.5 million shares worth VND2.8 trillion, while block deals contributed an additional 1.42 million shares worth VND132 billion.
