Shell Plc (SHEL)

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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.

The UK-headquartered oil group’s adjusted earnings for 2021 — the profit measure most closely tracked by analysts — rose to $19.3bn, from $4.8bn a year earlier when the pandemic hit oil demand.

Earnings for the last three months of the year were $6.4bn, beating average analyst estimates of $5.2bn and up from $393mn in the same period a year earlier and $2.9bn in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/ca4fba8b-5ba4-4bde-9957-a3e17d937fb7