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ISIN code: IT0003796171
Sector: Transportation
Industry: Air Freight/Cargo
Poste Italiane's shares are listed on the Italian market under the ticker PST.
Look at the history of the quotation of the share on the Milan Stock Exchange
Company Description
Poste Italiane SpA is an Italian company that deals with postal, banking, financial and telecommunications services, public telematics, collection and payment operations and the collection of postal savings.
Until 30 April 2026, the company was entrusted with the postal service, providing the essential services for the delivery of letters and parcels throughout the Italian national territory.
Poste is divided into four business units: Poste Vita Group, BancoPosta, Postepay and Post, Communication and Logistics.
The company has 13 Departments and Central Services. On the national territory it is present with 132 branches, approximately 13.000 post offices, 16 postal mechanization centres, 2.120 delivery offices and 7.300 ATMs. Every day 18 air connections are active and 38.000 vehicles are moved daily. It has approximately 130.000 employees.
Poste Italiane is listed on the FTSE MIB index of the Milan Stock Exchange since 27 October 2015.
The company is controlled for approx 60% from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, directly (29,26%) and through Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (35%).
Poste owns 0,40% of treasury shares. The rest of the shareholding is divided into individual investors 11,83% e institutional investors 23,51%. Geographically, institutional shareholders mainly come from the USA and Canada (28,34%), Italy (21,38%) and Europe (20,84%).
The shareholders, in April 2021, is composed as follows:
- Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, 35%
- Ministry of Economy and Finance, 29,26%
- Treasury shares, 0,40%
- Individual investors, 11,83%
- Institutional Investors, 23,51%
In 2020, turnover was 10,5 billion euros with a net profit of 1,2 billion.
On 12 October 2021, the shares of Poste reached quota € 12,32 per share, all-time high reached from the day of its listing.
Economic and financial analysis of the company
Poste Italiane was founded in 1862 for the management, under monopoly on behalf of the State, of the Italian postal and telegraph services.
After the unification of Italy, the company was entrusted with the management of all the postal services of the annexed kingdoms.
In 1924, during the Fascism, the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs became the Ministry of Communications. Since the end of the Second World War, Poste has focused on the development of financial products, passbooks and savings bonds.
During the nineties, Poste enters a great crisis. The management of the company exceeded profits and the lack of productivity led to a loss of 777 billion lire. It was mostly HR management that drained the company's accounts. In 1986 personnel costs absorbed 93% of current income.
The great difference between Poste and the other European postal companies led to a reform (law n. 71 of 29 January 1994) which led to a transformation of Poste Italiane from an independent company to a public economic body, with a further transition to SpA within 1996 (later implemented on 28 February 1998). This transformation was to lead to the adoption of the principle of productive efficiency, the recovery of the quality of services and the economic-financial recovery. In 1997 the directive (known as Prodi directive) adopted by the President of the CdM on postal services imposed on Poste Italiane the task of improving the quality of the service by achieving, through a new range of services, the breakeven of the management costs of the postal network.
Thus begins a gradual reduction in costs and an increase in revenues deriving from the sale of services to the public administration. In 2001 it returned to having a positive net result. These steps, together with a new industrial plan, presented in 1998 by the new managing director Corrado Passera, improved the company. In May 2002 he was appointed managing director Massimo Sarmi. Sarmi's strategy was to modernize the company through the innovation of the technological and logistic infrastructure and the expansion of the range of products and services.
This strategy has led the company to close its financial statements with a profit for ten consecutive years, bringing Poste back to being profitable.
Over the years it also begins to acquire and participate in transport companies. In 1998, it acquired the transport courier for around 200 billion lire SDA Express Courier.
In 2000, Poste Italiane acquired a 20% stake in the share capital of Bartolini through SDA Express Courier which will divest in 2005.
In 2003, among the financial area products, the postpay, the Poste prepaid card which was immediately a great success.
In 2007, Poste Italiane became the first postal company in the world to enter the mobile telephony sector as a virtual operator with the launch of Poste Mobile.
Since 2010 Poste Italiane has been providing services on behalf of the Public Administration, among which there is the certified mail (pec).
Poste Italiane offers various financial products: mortgages, personal loans, mutual funds, which have been added to the classic savings accounts and interest-bearing postal certificates. The Poste Vita sector, on the other hand, offers various insurance products.
Since 27 October 2015, Poste Italiane has been listed on the Stock Exchange. 60% of the shares are in the hands of the Ministry of Economy and Finance while the remaining 40% are in the floating market. The initial capitalization was 8,816 billion euros corresponding to the 6,75 euros per share of the IPO price, which ended positively with a request 3,3 times higher than the quantity offered.
Le subsidiaries from Poste Italiane are:
- BancoPosta Fondi SpA SGR – 100%
- CLP (Packet Logistics Consortium) ScpA – 51%
- Consortium for Mobile Telephony Services ScpA – 51%
- European Real Estate Management SpA – 55%
- Post Air Cargo Srl – 100%
- Poste Energia SpA – 100%
- PosteShop SpA – 100%
- Poste Tributi ScpA – 70%
- PosteTutela SpA – 100%
- Poste Vita SpA – 100%
- Poste Assicura SpA – 100%
- Postel SpA – 100%
- SDA Express Courier SpA – 100%
- Postepay Spa – 100%
- Nexive Group Srl – 100%
Under the administration Sarmi has entered into various international agreements and partnerships, also exporting its know-how to other countries.
Poste has collaborated with various international and national brands such as Ups, Leonardo, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco, Vodafone, State Railways, Rai, SAP.
Poste Italiane is also active in reducing the company's environmental impact. The company is committed to optimizing energy consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the environmental and acoustic pollution of the delivery service. In recent years, CO2 emissions have dropped by 30% while 50% of the energy consumed comes from certified renewable sources.
Poste Italiane is included in the US magazine's “World's Most Admired Companies”. Fortune.
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