Societe Generale announces the result of the option for the payment of the dividend in shares

Result of the option for the payment of the dividend in shares The ordinary General Meeting of Societe Generale held on 21 May 2019 set the dividend per share for the 2018 financial year at EUR 2.20 and resolved to grant each shareholder the possibility to opt for the payment of the dividend in shares. The option period ended on 7 June 2019.

Shareholders owning 50.2% of Societe Generale shares, opted for the payment of the dividend in shares. As a result, 39,814,909 new shares will be issued, representing 4.9% of the share capital of Societe Generale before taking into account this issuance.

The new ordinary shares will be delivered as from 14 June 2019 and application will be made for their admission to trading on the regulated market of Euronext Paris (“Euronext Paris”).

They will carry dividend rights as from 1 January 2019, will be of the same class as and immediately assimilated to the Societe Generale shares already admitted to trading on Euronext Paris (Compartment A - code ISIN FR 0000130809). Following this issuance, the share capital of Societe Generale will be comprised of 847,732,648 shares each with a par value of 1.25 euros.

This issuance of new shares will have an impact of 24 basis point on the CET1 ratio of the Group. The CET1 ratio as of 31 March 2019, pro-forma of this issuance, stands at 11.7%.

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