Shares and share ownership

Ordinary shares in PostNL N.V. (ticker: PNL, ISIN code 0009739416) are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and included in the AMX index. Options on PostNL shares are traded on Euronext Derivatives Amsterdam and on the European Options Exchange in Amsterdam.

In 2019, 1,378 million PostNL shares were traded on Euronext Amsterdam (2018: 1,048 million). The average daily number of shares traded was 5.3 million (2018: 4.1 million). The market capitalisation of PostNL was €946 million at the end of 2019 (2018: €937 million).

PostNL Relative performance PostNL compared to AMX-index
2019

PostNL’s authorised share capital is divided into 1,500,000,000 shares of €0.08 each and consists of 750,000,000 ordinary shares and 750,000,000 preference shares B. The number of issued and outstanding ordinary shares was 493,952,586 on 31 December 2019 (2018: 469,199,776 shares). All shares in issue are fully paid. In 2019, 23,900,149 shares were issued as stock dividend (2018: 15,165,535) and 852,661 for the share plan for employees (2018: 504,046). No preference shares B were issued and outstanding. For more information on PostNL’s equity, see note 4.6 to the consolidated financial statements.

Major shareholders

Pursuant to the Financial Markets Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht), shareholders must disclose percentage holdings in the capital and/or voting rights in the company when such holding reaches, exceeds or falls below 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 75% and 95%.

Such disclosure must be made to the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (AFM) without delay. Our substantial shareholders are listed in the table below.

PostNL Overview of substantial shareholders and their relative ownership (>3%)
31 December 2019

Shareholder base

The distribution of our shares between retail (15%) and institutional shareholders (85%) did not change compared to 2018. PostNL has a broad base of international shareholders.

PostNL Institutional shareholders by region
2018, 2019 (in %)