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Petrolimex to list PLX share starting at 43,200 VND

The Vietnam National Petroleum Group will officially list 1,293,878,081 shares coded PLX at an initial price of 43,200 VND (1.90 USD) per share, according to the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange.
Petrolimex to list PLX share starting at 43,200 VND ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: petrolimex.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam National PetroleumGroup (Petrolimex) will officially list 1,293,878,081 shares coded PLX at an initial price of 43,200 VND (1.90 USD) per share, according to the Ho ChiMinh Stock Exchange (HOSE).

With a trading band of 20 percent for maidenlistings, the price will vary between 34,560-51,840 VND (1.52-2.28 USD).

PLX will be listed before the annual shareholders’meeting of Petrolimex slated for the morning of April 25. The meeting is toapprove business performance outcomes in 2016 and plans for 2017.

According to Petrolimex General Director TranVan Thinh, in 2016, Petrolimex, the largest fuel importer and distributor ofVietnam, sold 11.44 million tonnes of fuel, exceeding the plan by 5.3 percent,with a revenue of 123.09 trillion VND (5.42 billion USD), and a coordinated pretaxprofit of 6.3 trillion VND (297 million USD), surpassing its plan by 58.8percent.

The initial price values Petrolimex at 67trillion VND (2.95 billion USD), enabling it to enter the club of the tenbiggest companies on the HOSE, together with Vinamilk (VNM),Vietcombank (VCB), Vingroup (VIC), PV Gas (GAS), FLC Faros (ROS), VietinBank(CTG) and BIDV (BID).

HOSE is the exchange that gathers the biggest companies inVietnam with its VN30 Index, which tracks the performance of the largest 30firms by market capitalisation.-VNA
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