Metsä Board Annual and sustainability report 2022

BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND VALUE CREATION

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT

GOVERNANCE

The Board’s proposal to the Annual General Meeting for the distribution of funds

The distributable funds of the company are EUR 609,287,153.42 of which retained earnings constitute EUR 287,026,854.12 and profit for the period EUR 111,620,817.49.

The Board of Directors proposes the following to the Annual General Meeting regarding the distribution of funds:

Dividend of EUR 0.58 per share be paid, or in total

205,617,392.68

To be left in the unrestricted shareholders' equity

403,669,760.74

Distributable funds of the company

609,287,153.42

The Board of Directors proposes that the dividend will be paid on 5 April, 2023.

No material changes have been taken place in respect of the company’s financial position after the balance sheet date. The liquidity of the company is good, and in the opinion of the Board of Directors, the proposed profit distribution would not compromise the liquidity of the company.

Espoo 8 February 2023

Ilkka Hämälä

Jussi Linnaranta

Hannu Anttila

Raija-Leena Hankonen-Nybom

Erja Hyrsky

Mari Kiviniemi

Jukka Moisio

Timo Saukkonen

Veli Sundbäck

Mika Joukio CEO

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