OMV Petrom shares (SNP) went up 22% in the first three months of 2019, marking the best performance in the first echelon of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

For comparison, the BET index rose by nearly 10%, mainly driven by improved financial results for companies that have proposed dividends of up to 13%, according to ZF.ro.

Petrom intends to pay its investors 0.0270 lei per share of the 2018 profit, equivalent to a yield of about 7.4%.

The evolution of Petrom shares in Q1- 2019 was mainly supported by the improved financial results for the year 2018.