PROPOSED APPROPRIATION OF AVAILABLE EARNINGS

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The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting a distribution of CHF 2.50 per registered share amounting to CHF 32,000,000, consisting of a dividend of CHF 2.05 per registered share and an appropriation from statutory capital contribution reserve to voluntary retained earnings and a payout of CHF 0.45 per registered share.

PROPOSED APPROPRIATION OF AVAILABLE EARNINGS

CHF 1,000

2022

2021

Profit carried forward from prior year

12,212

11,542

Profit for the year

51,532

16,621

Retained earnings available for Annual General Meeting

63,744

28,163

 

 

 

Proposed dividend payment

–26,240

–15,951

 

 

 

Balance to be carried forward

37,504

12,212

PROPOSED APPROPRIATION FROM STATUTORY CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION RESERVE

CHF 1,000

2022

2021

Statutory capital contribution reserve before distribution

5,801

21,752

Proposed appropriation from statutory capital contribution reserve to voluntary retained earnings

–5,760

–15,951

Statutory capital contribution reserve after distribution

41

5,801

PROPOSED PAYOUT

CHF 1,000

2022

2021

Proposed dividend payment

 

 

Gross dividend per registered share: CHF 2.05 (2021: CHF 1.25)

 

 

on 12,730,665 shares entitled to distribution at 31 December 2022

26,098

15,951

on 69,335 treasury shares set aside for the employee share plan at 31 December 2022 1)

142

 

Less withholding tax

–9,184

–5,583

 

 

 

Proposed distribution from capital contribution reserve

 

 

Gross distribution per registered share: CHF 0.45 (2021: CHF 1.25)

 

 

on 12,730,665 shares entitled to distribution at 31 December 2022

5,729

15,951

on 69,335 treasury shares set aside for the employee share plan at 31 December 2022 2)

31

 

Less withholding tax

-

-

 

 

 

Total payout

22,816

26,319

1) The Company will waive its entitlement to dividend for the treasury shares held on the distribution date that are reserved for use in its employee share plan. The amount due on these shares will be taken to the profit carried forward.

2) The Company will waive its entitlement to such payments from the statutory capital contribution reserve for the treasury shares held on the distribution date that are reserved for use in its employee share plan. The amount due on these shares will be taken to the statutory capital contribution reserve.