Petrom Thursday proposed paying out its shareholders a gross dividend of 0.028 lei (EUR0.0108) a share from the 2012 record profit, down 9.6% on the year.
The bourse’s BET index was down 0.60% at around 11:00 local time (GMT0900), and composite index BET-C was losing 0.64%.
Investment fund tracker BET-FI was down 0.50%, with Fondul Proprietatea trading 0.88% lower on the day.
Benchmark index BET-BK decreased 0.40% and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was down 0.55%.
Energy sector index BET-NG was decreasing 0.76%, dragged down by all its issuers, except for Transelectrica (TEL.RO), up a mere 0.15%, while OMV Petrom traded down 1.39%.
The bourse’s total traded value stood at 2.94 million lei (EUR0.66 million) at around 11:00, with RON2.68 million coming from share transactions.
Proprietatea was top-traded issuer on the main market with share trades worth RON0.79 million. (EUR1=RON4.4219)