VIENNA - Austrian oil and gas group OMV trimmed its 2019 dividend proposal by 0.25 euros ($0.30) to 1.75 euros per share on Tuesday in response to a slump in consumption.
Like its rivals, OMV has had to react to a collapse in oil and gas prices and falling margins as demand for refined oil products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has dropped due to global travel restrictions and business disruptions.
OMV will report second-quarter results on Wednesday and 15 analysts on average forecast a fall in core profit (clean CCS EBIT) to 52 million euros from 1.05 billion euros a year earlier.
Shareholders will decide on the dividend, which would be unchanged versus last year, at OMV's annual meeting on September 29.
($1 = 0.8530 euros)
(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle; editing by Jason Neely) ((kirsti.knolle@thomsonreuters.com; +43 1 2530 1650 13;))
