Yesterday, the  board of Directors of DMCI Holdings, Inc. (PSE: DMC) approved the declaration of P0.72 per common share. This is a special cash dividends for shareholders on record as of November 2, 2022.

The dividends will be taken from its restricted retained earnings as of October 17,2022. Ex-dividend date will be on October 27, 2022, while payment will be made on November 16, 2022.

DMC Special Dividends

Last April, DMC paid its eligible shareholders a total of P0.48 per common share in regular and special cash dividends.

With this October declaration, DMC’s total dividend payout for 2022 will be P1.20, 25 percent more than the P0.96 in total dividends declared last year. The total payout translates to a cash dividend yield of 11.32 percent based on its October 17, 2022 closing price of P10.60.


In all, DMC will end the year with P15.9 billion in dividend payments to its shareholders, which represent 92 percent of the company’s consolidated core net income in 2021.

DMCI Holdings has a dividend policy that commits to a dividend payout ratio of at least 25 percent of the preceding year’s consolidated core net income.

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One of DMCI subsidiaries recently got its newest project from the build of its first subway project which will take around 67 months to complete. This project will cover Quezon Avenue and East Avenue underground stations and tunnels for the Metro Manila Subway Project.

DMC stock price closed at 10.16 pesos per share.

DMC Stock Price

The mining branch of DMCI holding corporation, DMCI mining posted robust earnings for the 1Q’2022 as it yielded 14% with net income of P543Million. This comes as the highest quarter earnings yet for DMCI as compared to its last year P477 Million.

DMCI earnings comes from higher nickel ore shipments and favorable foreign exchange resulting to 25% higher revenue.

DMCI Mining boosted its total shipments by 26 percent from 494,000 wet metric tons (WMT) to 620,000 WMT on the back of its robust beginning inventory of 389,000 WMT.

In it’s PSE disclosure today, Tulsi Das C. Reyes, DMCI mining president stated that

“We had a very good start to the year. Unfortunately, without a second operating asset, it would be impossible to maintain our output,”

“Our main challenge now is securing the necessary permits to expand our operations,” he added.

From January to March, total production plunged by 43 percent from 555,000 WMT to 318,000 WMT on the nil production of Berong Nickel Corporation (BNC) and 5-percent uptick in output of Zambales Diversified Metals Corporation (ZDMC), from 313,000 WMT to 318,000 WMT.

Average selling price slipped by 5 percent from 1.37 to 1.30 as BNC sold lower-grade nickel amid higher shipments from ZDMC.

DMCI Mining is looking to expand its mining operations by another 3,500 hectares, which have a potential nickel resource of over 200 million wet metric tons. Once fully permitted, these additional operating assets can sustain the company for at least 50 years.

Previous news reports have stated that DMC Holdings is planning to consolidate its mining assets with Semirara Mining, SCC. This remains to be confirmed.

SCC currently remains bullish as of this writing with a P35.0/share price, currently up by 6%.