“In every company’s life, there are defining moments that structurally and ideologically mark its course and development. For Lion Capital, such a moment is consumed today, when we lay the foundation stone of the new construction, adapted to the future, and prepared from a competitive point of view to activate in the European and global capital markets. We keep the experience and tradition of SIF Banat Crisana but add the innovation and strength of the new structure for a higher level of performance and a fresh and current visual identity,” said Bogdan Dragoi, President and CEO of Lion Capital S.A.
“Lion Capital is among the first companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, its history on the local stock exchange starting in November 1999. From then until now, Lion Capital has represented a partner with a significant contribution to the Romanian capital market and one of the important institutional investors of the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Congratulations to the Lion Capital team for the rebranding process, and good luck in implementing their future plans,” said Radu Hanga, President of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
“Updating the brand architecture is an important process for companies with tradition, such as Lion Capital, as these steps demonstrate the attention they pay to socio-economic evolution and, equally, it is a reaffirmation of the foundations on which the company is built, through alignment with their development plans. The strategic anchoring process to the company’s dynamism reflects the alignment with its values but also the evolution of the capital market. Lion Capital is one of the partners that has been contributing to the development of the local market for over 20 years, and, on this occasion, we wish the team success under the new identity,” said Adrian Tanase, CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
The company’s shares were suspended from trading on Thursday and Friday (May 11 – 12, 2023) for the change of the stock symbol from SIF1 to LION, and on Monday, May 15, the first transactions with the LION symbol could be carried out.
In the 23 years since the listing on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, 3.8 billion shares were traded, with a value of RON5.5 billion. At the end of the trading session on Wednesday (May 10), the last day of trading of the company’s shares under the old stock symbol, the capitalization of Lion Capital was RON1.2 billion, a value 82 times higher than the capitalization since its debut on the stock exchange. Considering the dividends distributed by the company during these years, the investment made in the company’s shares has brought a return of 11.135% since the listing to date. The company’s shares are included in the BET-XT | BET-XT-TR | BET-XT-TRN | BET-BK | BET-FI indices.