Telenet’s board of directors proposes a gross final dividend of €1.30 per share to the April 2020 General Shareholders' Meeting

Telenet's board of directors will propose a gross final dividend of €143.2 million (€1.30 gross per share) to its shareholders at the April 29, 2020 Annual General Shareholders' Meeting. If and when approved, the final dividend will be paid in early May 2020. The proposed gross final dividend is based on 110,143,643 dividendentitled shares at the date of this release, excluding 4,513,142 treasury shares which are not dividendentitled. The gross final dividend per share will be determined at the end of March 2020 in the convening notice to the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting based on the number of dividend-entitled shares then outstanding. Currently, the sum of both the intermediate and final dividend would amount to €1.87 per share
(gross), equivalent to €206.0 million in aggregate.

source: press release October 31, 2019

Brussels, October 31, 2019 – Telenet Group Holding NV (“Telenet” or the “Company”) (Euronext Brussels: TNET) announces that its board of directors will propose a gross intermediate dividend of €63.2 million, quivalent to €0.57 per share 1, to its shareholders at the December 4, 2019 Special Shareholders’ Meeting. Today’s announcement is consistent with the shareholder remuneration policy outlined during the December 2018 Capital Markets Day and will be followed by a final dividend payment in May 2020. The intermediate dividend will be paid using available cash and cash equivalents, which were €82.4 million at September 30, 2019.

In absence of any material acquisitions and/or significant changes in Telenet’s business or regulatory environment, Telenet intends to stay around 4.0x net total leverage, representing the mid-point of the 3.5x to 4.5x range. At September 30, 2019, Telenet’s net total leverage was 4.0x, which was a decline versus the 4.3x at June 30, 2019. On a pro forma basis, assuming the aforementioned intermediate dividend was already paid in Q3 2019, Telenet’s net total leverage would have been 4.1x.

As part of Telenet’s capital allocation framework, Telenet aims to distribute between 50% and 70% of its prior year Adjusted Free Cash Flow to shareholders through intermediate and final dividends. Within the boundaries of the aforementioned net total leverage framework and in absence of any of the above factors, the remaining part of Telenet’s Adjusted Free Cash Flow may be considered for incremental share buy-backs, extraordinary dividends, deleveraging, accretive acquisitions or a combination thereof. 

Telenet will convene a Special Shareholders’ Meeting on December 4, 2019, seeking shareholder approval for the intermediate dividend payment. If and when approved, the intermediate dividend will be paid on December 9, 2019 with the Telenet shares trading exdividend as of the opening of the Brussels stock exchange on December 5, 2019.

Source: First Half 2018 Results

Telenet announced today that the board of directors proposes to proceed with an extraordinary dividend payment of €600.0 million, equivalent to approximately €5.2 (gross) per share, consistent with the board’s previously stated intention to revert on additional forms of shareholder remuneration in the second half of the year . Telenet will convene a general shareholders’ meeting (“EGM”), currently contemplated to be held on September 26, 2018. The effective pay-out date is currently contemplated, subject to EGM approval, to take place on October 4, 2018, with the ex-coupon date on October 1, 2018 and the record date on October 3, 2018.

De raad van bestuur heeft verschillende vormen van aandeelhoudersvergoeding besproken in het licht van de jaarresultaten van de Vennootschap, haar balans en haar hefboomratio. Met uitzondering van het Aandeleninkoopprogramma 2018 heeft de raad van bestuur voorlopig geen enkele andere vorm van aandeelhoudersvergoeding goedgekeurd.
De raad van bestuur zal in de loop van het jaar mogelijke vormen van aandeelhoudersvergoeding overwegen. Tot op heden heeft de raad van bestuur een aandeleninkoopprogramma tot maximaal €75,0 miljoen (het "Aandeleninkoopprogramm 2018") goedgekeurd, met ingang vanaf 13 februari 2018.

Op 10 februari 2016 maakte Telenet Group Holding NV ("Telenet" of "de Vennootschap") bekend dat het op 15 februari 2016 start met een aandeleninkoopprogramma (het "Aandeleninkoopprogramma 2016"). Onder dit programma mag de Raad van Bestuur van tijd tot tijd eigen aandelen inkopen, met een maximum van 1.100.000 aandelen, voor een maximaal bedrag van € 50,0 miljoen, binnen een periode van zes (6) maanden. Deze inkopen van eigen aandelen zullen plaatsvinden onder de voorwaarden goedgekeurd door de buitengewone algemene aandeelhoudersvergadering van de Vennootschap van 30 april 2014. Alle ingekochte aandelen zullen aangehouden worden door de Vennootschap om haar verplichtingen na te komen onder bestaande aandelenoptieplannen.