Financial targets and key performance indicators
The Company’s financial targets are effective 31 August 2022. Financial results are reported in the annual and sustainability report.
Direct return
The return on adjusted operating capital should be no less than 2.5 per cent over time, with and without associated companies.
Capital structure
The net gearing ratio should be 0.05–0.3.
Dividend
The ordinary dividend is to amount to between 70 and 100 percent of the Group’s profit after tax, excluding any non-cash changes in the value of standing timber and any share of the profit of associated companies, plus 100 percent of the dividends received by the company in preceding years from associated companies.
Financial facts in brief
Key performance indicators are updated each year during production of the company’s annual report.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
| Net sales, MSEK | 7,209 | 6,597 | 6,920 | 7,760 | 7,863 |
| Operating profit before changes in value of forest assets, MSEK | 1,694 | 1,340 | 2,038 | 1,966 | 1,399 |
| Changes in value of forest assets, MSEK | 399 | 12,481 | -196 | 499 | 3,376 |
| Operating profit, MSEK | 2,093 | 13,821 | 1,842 | 2,465 | 4,775 |
| Pre-tax profit, MSEK | 1,963 | 13,668 | 1,709 | 2,339 | 4,549 |
| Profit for the year, MSEK | 1,558 | 10,867 | 1,494 | 1,979 | 3,616 |
| Return on equity, % | 6.7 | 26.2 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 5.1 |
| Return on adjusted operating capital (excl. deferred tax),% | 5.4 | 3.6 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
| Equity ratio, % | 57 | 68 | 68 | 69 | 70 |
| Net gearing ratio, multiple | 0.30 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.11 |
| Dividend, MSEK | 1,100 | 850 | 1,300 | 1,150 | 1,207 |
| Number of permanent employees | 682 | 713 | 711 | 739 | 804 |
| Average number of employees | 807 | 827 | 825 | 810 | 880 |
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