2020 Annual Financial Report

Chapitre 5 : Comments on the financial year

/ Information on supplier payment terms referred to in article D. 441-6 of the French Commercial Code

 

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

 

0 days

1 to 30 days

31 to 60 days

61 to 90 days

91 days or more

Total (one day or more)

(A) Late payment tranches

(A) Late payment tranches

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

 

     

Number of invoices involved

Number of invoices involved

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

0

    2

Total amount of invoices involved, inc. tax

Total amount of invoices involved, inc. tax

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

0

0

0

0

42,985

42,985

Percentage of total amount of purchases, inc. tax for the year

Percentage of total amount of purchases, inc. tax for the year

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.51%

0.51%

(B) Invoices not included in (A) relating to bad debts and receivables or not recognized

(B) Invoices not included in (A) relating to bad debts and receivables or not recognized

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

 

     

Number of invoices not included

Number of invoices not included

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

 

    8

Amount of invoices not included

Amount of invoices not included

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

 

    267,331

(C) Reference payment periods used (contractual or legal – article L. 441-6 or article L. 443-1 of the French Commercial Code)

(C) Reference payment periods used (contractual or legal – article L. 441-6 or article L. 443-1 of the French Commercial Code)

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

 

     

Payment terms used to calculate late payments:

Payment terms used to calculate late payments:

Invoices received and not settled on the reporting date that are past due

Contractual payment terms, namely those indicated on our purchase orders, range from cash on delivery to 60 days, in line with statutory maximums.

/Information on acquisitions and disposals by the Company of its own shares

Under the liquidity contract signed with Kepler Cheuvreux, the Company acquired 4,064,184 shares in 2020 at an average price of euro 31.53, and sold 4,278,976 shares at an average price of euro 31.77.

The trading fees and other expenses incurred by the Company during 2020 for transactions performed pursuant to the share buyback program authorized by the 22nd resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting on May 29, 2019, and then by the 20th resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting on May 27, 2020, amounted to euro 70,000.

/Summary table of trading by the Company in Publicis Groupe SA shares in 2020

At December 31, 2020

Deliveries 
(free share plans)

Procurement (liquidity contract)

Sales (liquidity contract)

Quantities (in shares)

Quantities (in shares)

Average price (in euros)

Quantities (in shares)

Average price (in euros)

Under the 22nd resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/29/2019

Under the 22nd resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/29/2019

Deliveries 
(free share plans)

291,786

Under the 22nd resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/29/2019

Procurement (liquidity contract)

450,783

Under the 22nd resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/29/2019

Sales (liquidity contract)

35.63

334,033

35.91

Under the 20th resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/27/2020

Under the 20th resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/27/2020

Deliveries 
(free share plans)

782,397

Under the 20th resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/27/2020

Procurement (liquidity contract)

3,613,401

Under the 20th resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 05/27/2020

Sales (liquidity contract)

31.02

3,944,943

31.42

Total

Total

Deliveries 
(free share plans)

1,074,183

Total

Procurement (liquidity contract)

4,064,184

Total

Sales (liquidity contract)

31.53

4,278,976

31.77

At December 31, 2020, Publicis Groupe SA held 2,191,259 shares with a par value of euro 0.40, representing 0.88% of its own capital, for an overall cost price of euro 140,630,778 and an average unit price of euro 64.18. These shares are broken down into 68,458 shares held under the liquidity contract and 2,122,801 shares allocated to free share plans or stock options.

Allocation of 2020 net income and setting the dividend

The General Shareholders’ Meeting called to approve the 2020 financial statements on May 26, 2021, will be asked to appropriate distributable earnings, which consist of:

  • net income for the 2020 financial year amounting to euro 63,769,554.31;
  • minus allocation to the statutory reserve euro 293,279.08;
  • plus earnings brought forward at December 31, 2020 euro 2,228,793.85;
  •  I.e. total distributable earnings euro 65,705,069.08;
  •  To which is added an amount taken from issue premiums euro 429,833,006.92.

I.e. a total of euro 495,538,076.00 distributed to shareholders (based on a dividend of euro 2 per share and 247,769,038 shares, including treasury shares, as at December 31, 2020).