Key figures

Essity’s ten largest shareholders

At December 31, 2017, the following companies, foundations and mutual funds were the ten largest registered shareholders based on voting rights:

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Shareholders

No. of A shares

No. of B shares

Votes (%)

Capital (%)

Source: Euroclear

AB Industrivärden

35,000,000

31,800,000

29.8

9.5

Norges Bank Investment Management

8,056,104

25,625,076

8.3

4.8

MFS Investment Management

 

35,119,983

2.7

5.0

SHB Oktogonen Foundation

3,000,000

 

2.3

0.4

AMF Insurance and Funds

430,000

24,009,053

2.2

3.5

Swedbank Robur Funds

 

25,496,216

2.0

3.6

Skandia

2,009,210

2,382,683

1.8

0.6

SHB Pension Fund

1,303,000

 

1.0

0.2

First Swedish Pension Insurance Fund

 

12,205,690

1.0

1.7

SCA Employee Foundation

982,845

74,406

0.8

0.2

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Data per share

All earnings figures include items affecting comparability unless otherwise indicated.

SEK per share unless otherwise indicated

2017

1)

Excluding items affecting comparability and amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets.

2)

See definitions of key figures.

3)

Board proposal.

4)

Share price at year-end divided by earnings per share.

5)

Market capitalization plus net debt plus non-controlling interests divided by EBITA. (EBITA = operating profit before amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets).

6)

Share price volatility compared with the entire stock exchange (measured from June 15, 2017).

Earnings per share

11.56

Adjusted earnings per share1)

13.09

Market price for B share:

 

Average price during the year

233.87

Closing price, December 31

233.00

Cash flow from current operations2)

12.45

Cash flow from operating activities

18.12

Dividend3)

5.75

Dividend yield, %

2.5

P/E ratio4)

20

P/E ratio, excluding items affecting comparability4)

19

Price/EBITA5)

17

Price/EBITA, excluding items affecting comparability5)

16

Beta coefficient6)

0.58

Pay-out ratio, %

50

Equity

71

Number of registered shares December 31 (millions)

702.3

Percentage of foreign ownership, capital as of December 31, 2017

Percentage of foreign ownership, capital (pie chart)

Source: Euroclear

Earnings per share, 2017
SEK11.56
Proposed dividend per share, 2017
SEK5.75

Essity is included in the following sustainability indexes

ECPI, FTSE4Good, GLOBAL100 (logo)

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Shareholder structure, as of December 31, 2017

Holding

No. of shareholders

No. of shares

Holding (%)

Votes (%)

Source: Euroclear

1–500

58,845

9,381,628

1.34

1.55

501–1,000

12,376

9,482,263

1.35

1.54

1,001–5,000

12,992

28,027,795

3.99

4.68

5,001–10,000

1,669

11,947,869

1.70

1.90

10,001–15,000

477

5,964,061

0.85

0.88

15,001–20,000

267

4,700,910

0.67

0.57

20,001–

1,212

632,837,963

90.10

88.88

Total

87,838

702,342,489

100.0

100.0

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Share distribution, as of December 31, 2017

 

Class A

Class B

Total

Number of registered shares

64,140,438

638,202,051

702,342,489
Ticker names

Nasdaq Stockholm

ESSITY A, ESSITY B

New York (ADR level 1)

ESSYY

Share capital development

The table below shows the development of the Company’s share capital since 2016.

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Year

Event

Change in number of Class A shares

Change in number of Class B shares

Total number of Class A shares

Total number of Class B shares

Total number of shares

Change in share capital, SEK

Total share capital, SEK

Quotient value, SEK

1)

At the Annual General Meeting, held on April 5, 2017, shareholders resolved on a bonus issue. The purpose of the bonus issue was to increase the share capital and number of shares so they would correspond to the number of shares in SCA ahead of SCA’s distribution of Essity.

2016

New issue

4,000

–

5,000

–

5,000

400,000

500,000

100

2017

Bonus issue1)

64,589,523

637,747,966

64,594,523

637,747,966

702,342,489

2,349,866,980

2,350,366,980

3.35

2017

Conversion

–584

584

64,593,939

637,748,550

702,342,489

–

2,350,366,980

3.35