The Board of Directors resolves distribution of 2024 profits

1.Date of the board of directors resolution :2025/02/25
2.Year or quarter which dividends belong to:2024
3.Period which dividends belong to:2024/01/01~2024/12/31
4.Appropriations of earnings in cash dividends to shareholders
(NT$ per share):17
5.Cash distributed from legal reserve and capital surplus to shareholders
(NT$ per share):0
6.Total amount of cash distributed to shareholders (NT$):5,893,694,827
7.Appropriations of earnings in stock dividends to shareholders
(NT$ per share):None
8.Stock distributed from legal reserve and capital surplus to shareholders
(NT$ per share):None
9.Total amount of stock distributed to shareholders (shares):None
10.Any other matters that need to be specified:
The distribution of dividends shall take into consideration the changes
in the outlook for the Company's businesses, the financial situation and
the return on shareholders’equity that have an impact on future capital
needs and taxation.
Dividends shall be distributed at the ratio as set forth in these Articles
of Incorporation aimed at maintaining the stability of dividend
distributions.
Save for the purposes of improving the financial structure, reinvestments,
production expansion or other capital expenditures in which capital is
required, when distributing dividends, the cash dividends shall not be less
than twenty per cent (20%) of the aggregate sum of dividends distributed in
the same year. During the year losses occur, the Company may choose not to
pay dividends.
Apart from paying all its income taxes in the case where there are profits
at the end of the year, the Company shall make up for accumulated losses in
past years.
Where there is still balance, ten per cent (10%) of which shall be set aside
by the Company as legal reserve. The Company shall also set aside certain
portion of the profits as special reserve as required by Article 41 of the
Securities and Stock Exchange Act, or by resolutions of Shareholders’
Meetings.
While the Company distributes earnings to the shareholders, the paid-out
amount shall be more @than ten per cent (10%) but less than seventy per
cent (70%) of the distributable earnings, which @equals to earnings realized
after deducting legal, special and all other required reserves, but together
with undistributed profits from previous years.
Depending on the business operating results, the earnings to be distributed
to shareholders shall be proposed by the Board of Directors, and submitted
to the Shareholders’ Meeting and decided by the resolution from in the
Shareholder’s Meeting.
Dividends distributed by the company, if paid in cash, are authorized by
the board of directors to do so in the presence of more than two-thirds of
the directors and with the consent of a majority of the directors, and to
report at the shareholders' meeting.
11.Par value of common stock:NT$10