According to a financial letter from Vernimmen.net, “In 2022, according to our compilations, CAC 40 companies returned €80.1 billion to their shareholders, including €23.7 billion in share buybacks, the highest level ever recorded since we conducted this study. “(2003).
Record figures, despite the “difficult economic and geostrategic context”.
Dividends paid reached 56.5 billion euros, compared to 45.6 billion in 2021 and 28.6 billion in 2020 during the pandemic. “These excellent numbers are only in line with other equally excellent numbers recorded in 2022, despite the difficult economic and geostrategic context,” Vernimmen.net emphasizes, referring in particular to the lowest unemployment rate, the creation of companies in their entirety . -time high or fundraising at an unprecedented level by startups.
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