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Strong increase in proposed dividends
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2002-11-14T10:00:00.000Z
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Annual reports for non-financial limited companies, account statistics, 2001

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Strong increase in proposed dividends

Proposed dividends for non-financial joint-stock companies went up from NOK 71 billion in 2000 to almost NOK 91 billion in 2001, a 15 per cent increase. During the same period the net profit decreased from NOK 122 billion to NOK 92 billion, a 24 per cent decrease.

Joint-stock companies with positive net profit proposed NOK 84 billion in dividend, while companies with deficit proposed NOK 7 billion. About 60 per cent of the non- financial joint-stock companies had positive net profit, and in total they improved their profit by 3 per cent compared with the figures for 2000. Companies with deficit became less profitable, with a total loss of NOK 109 billion in 2001.

Reduced profitability and solidity

Key figures that indicate profitability decreased compared with the corresponding figures in 2000. Operating profit margin went down from 10.0 per cent in 2000 to 8.8 per cent in 2001. Return on total assets went down with almost one percentage point, to 7.4 per cent in 2001. Despite the fact that the key figures fell from 2000 to 2001, they are still higher than the figures for 1999.

The equity went up by 3 per cent from 2000 to 2001, while total equity and liabilities rose by 5 per cent. Equity ratio, which shows total equity in per cent of total equity and liabilities, went down from 37.6 per cent in 2000 to 35.8 per cent in 2001.

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