Thus, investors traded a number of 270,000 shares in Carbochim, at a price down 15%. The special deal transactions are known as negotiated transactions performed on a separate segment of the bourse. The buyer and the seller set the details of the transactions before concluding it.
According to the most recent reports, Gheorghe-Titus-Dan Popa owns 17.31% in the company, Mircea-Pietro Ionescu holds 19.64% and Electroarges, owned by Romanian businessman Catalin Chelu, holds 12.39%. Natural persons own a 26.70% stake in the company.
Carobochim posted revenue of RON7.6 million in the first quarter, up 13.4% from a year before. The company’s operating profit was threefold higher at RON688,000 in the first quarter, while the net profit increased to over RON600,000, over four times higher than in the first quarter a year ago.
At the end of 2014, the company made a share capital hike by RON6.4 million in order to upgrade the company through the acquisition of new equipment.
In 2015, Carbochim will pay stockholders RON936,000 dividends at RON0.19/share of 2014’s net profit.
(English version by Manuela Panescu)