Management board of HCM City Infrastructure Investment JSC (CII) has approved the plans of issuing total VNĐ1.2 trillion (US$52.6 million) worth of corporate bonds.

 

CII will issue two million corporate bonds with a par value of VNĐ100,000 each, worth total VNĐ200 billion (US$8.8 million), in the next three months. The bonds have a year of two terms and are non-convertible and unguaranteed.

 

The issue aims to increase the company’s working capital, according to its filing to the State Securities Commission.

 

In addition to this, the company’s management board approved CII to expedite the issuance of approximately VNĐ1 trillion worth of bonds guaranteed by an international financial institution.

 

Recently, CII also passed a number of reports prior to the annual shareholders’ meeting this year. Under the plan, the company targets a revenue of VNĐ6.3 trillion and after-tax profit of VNĐ1.21 trillion in 2018.

 

It also proposed shareholders to temporarily not pay dividends for 2017 and retain all profits for the new investment. The expected dividend rate in 2018 is 31 per cent per annum. From 2019 onwards, dividends are expected to be paid as in previous years, ranging from 12-20 per cent per year.

 

As of December 31, 2017, CII had more than VNĐ2.22 billion in short-term debt and nearly VNĐ7.17 trillion in long-term debt, including over VNĐ1.34 trillion bonds. — VNS