Inside the lab at Rạng Đông Light Source and Vacuum Flask JSC. — Photo rangdong.com.vn

HÀ NỘI — Rạng Đông Light Source and Vacuum Flask JSC will pay a cash dividend of a minimum 35 per cent in the next two years.

From 2017-19 the company paid a dividend of 50 per cent, with payments made twice per year.

On Friday, the second cash dividend payment for 2019 was made at a rate of 25 per cent, meaning every shareholder received VNĐ2,500 per share.

The first dividend for 2019 was made on September 24, 2019.

Rạng Đông in 2019 posted a 17.3 per cent annual increase in revenue, which touched VNĐ4.27 trillion (US$181.47 million). The figure beat the firm’s target last year by 18 per cent.

But pre-tax profit fell more than one third on-year to VNĐ161.5 billion, meeting only 79 per cent of the plan, as the company suffered a loss of VNĐ36 billion in the fourth quarter due to a factory blaze in late August.

In the first quarter of 2020, Rạng Đông reported VNĐ1.1 trillion in revenue, up 9.7 per cent on-year, and VNĐ75.4 billion in post-tax profit, up 45 per cent on-year.

The light and flask producer will hold its annual shareholders’ meeting on May 9. It targets to achieve VNĐ7 trillion in revenue in 2022.

Rạng Đông shares (HoSE: RAL) ended Friday flat at VNĐ72,000 apiece. — VNS