据ICIS-MRC网站2月15日莫斯科报道，据英国《金融时报》报道，在石油和天然气价格高企帮助壳牌在强劲的第四季度后实现了丰厚的全年收益后，壳牌将增加股息并回购更多股票。

这家总部位于英国的石油集团的2021年调整后收益——分析师最密切跟踪的利润指标——从一年前疫情打击石油需求时的48亿美元增至193亿美元。

2021年最后三个月的收益为64亿美元，超过分析师平均预测的52亿美元，高于2020年同期的3.93亿美元和2019年第四季度的29亿美元。

壳牌首席执行官本?范伯登(Ben van Beurden)表示，2021年对壳牌业务来说是“重要的一年”。因此，该公司正在“加大”对股东的分配，承诺在2022年上半年回购85亿美元的股票，并在第一季度将股息提高约4%，至每股25美分。

这一巨额利润标志着该集团在经历了2020年的挫折后出现了明显的好转。当时，壳牌公司录得自2005年荷兰皇家和壳牌运输公司合并以来的最低收益，也是该公司历史上唯一的年度亏损。

郝芬 译自 ICIS-MRC

原文如下：

Shell to increase dividend and buy back more shares as oil and gas prices boost earnings

Shell will increase its dividend and buy back more shares after high prices for oil and gas helped it deliver bumper full-year earnings after a strong fourth quarter, reported Financial Times.

The UK-headquartered oil group’s adjusted earnings for 2021 - the profit measure most closely tracked by analysts - rose to USD19.3bn, from USD4.8bn a year earlier when the pandemic hit oil demand.

Earnings for the last three months of the year were USD6.4bn, beating average analyst estimates of USD5.2bn and up from USD393mn in the same period a year earlier and USD2.9bn in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Ben van Beurden, Shell’s chief executive, said 2021 had been a “momentous year” for the business. As a result, the company was “stepping up” its distributions to shareholders, he said, with a commitment to buy back USD8.5bn in shares in the first half of 2022 and raise its dividend by roughly 4 per cent to 25 cents a share in the first quarter.

The bumper profits mark a stark turnaround for the group after a bruising 2020, when Shell recorded its lowest earnings since the unification of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport in 2005 and the only annual loss in the company’s history.

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