據ICIS-MRC網站2月15日莫斯科報道，據英國《金融時報》報道，在石油和天然氣價格高企幫助殼牌在強勁的第四季度后實現了豐厚的全年收益后，殼牌將增加股息并回購更多股票。

這家總部位于英國的石油集團的2021年調整后收益——分析師最密切跟蹤的利潤指標——從一年前疫情打擊石油需求時的48億美元增至193億美元。

2021年最后三個月的收益為64億美元，超過分析師平均預測的52億美元，高于2020年同期的3.93億美元和2019年第四季度的29億美元。

殼牌首席執行官本?范伯登(Ben van Beurden)表示，2021年對殼牌業務來說是“重要的一年”。因此，該公司正在“加大”對股東的分配，承諾在2022年上半年回購85億美元的股票，并在第一季度將股息提高約4%，至每股25美分。

這一巨額利潤標志著該集團在經歷了2020年的挫折后出現了明顯的好轉。當時，殼牌公司錄得自2005年荷蘭皇家和殼牌運輸公司合并以來的最低收益，也是該公司歷史上唯一的年度虧損。

郝芬 譯自 ICIS-MRC

原文如下：

Shell to increase dividend and buy back more shares as oil and gas prices boost earnings

Shell will increase its dividend and buy back more shares after high prices for oil and gas helped it deliver bumper full-year earnings after a strong fourth quarter, reported Financial Times.

The UK-headquartered oil group’s adjusted earnings for 2021 - the profit measure most closely tracked by analysts - rose to USD19.3bn, from USD4.8bn a year earlier when the pandemic hit oil demand.

Earnings for the last three months of the year were USD6.4bn, beating average analyst estimates of USD5.2bn and up from USD393mn in the same period a year earlier and USD2.9bn in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Ben van Beurden, Shell’s chief executive, said 2021 had been a “momentous year” for the business. As a result, the company was “stepping up” its distributions to shareholders, he said, with a commitment to buy back USD8.5bn in shares in the first half of 2022 and raise its dividend by roughly 4 per cent to 25 cents a share in the first quarter.

The bumper profits mark a stark turnaround for the group after a bruising 2020, when Shell recorded its lowest earnings since the unification of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport in 2005 and the only annual loss in the company’s history.

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