Company Insights Kingdom Holding Company Banking and Finance Kingdom Holding Company News Leisure & Hospitality Kingdom Holding plans $267m dividend despite profit drop Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) plans to distribute a dividend of more than SAR1 billion ($267 million) for 2023 despite profits falling by 85 percent. The board of the investment company, founded by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, proposed a 2.8 percent cash dividend, totalling SAR1.03 billion, for 2023, subject to shareholders approval. Net profit […] March 27, 2024 Giga-projects Red Sea Global secures $522m for Four Seasons Resort Saudi giga-project developer Red Sea Global (RSG) has secured SAR2 billion ($522 million) from Riyad Bank for its latest tourism project in the Red Sea development. The financing will be used to develop Four Seasons Resort, part of a joint venture between RSG and Kingdom Holding Company, which was incorporated in December 2023. The Four […] February 12, 2024 Leisure & Hospitality Kingdom Holding, Red Sea Global set up JV to develop $533m resort Saudi-listed Kingdom Holding Company said that it has incorporated a new joint venture with Public Investment Fund-backed Red Sea Global Company to develop a tourist resort in the kingdom. East Shoura III Real Estate Company is the new venture between Kingdom Holding’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Sea Front Company, and RSG’s Red Sea Investment Co. II subsidiary. […] December 25, 2023 Finance Kingdom Holding ups stake in Citigroup with Alwaleed deal Kingdom Holding Company has increased its investment in Citigroup after buying a $450 million stake from its Saudi Arabian billionaire chairman, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. The deal has raised Kingdom’s stake to 2.2 percent from 1.63 percent, according to a filing on the Saudi Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The company did not disclose any further […] November 29, 2023 Leisure & Hospitality Kingdom Holding profit up 10% on higher hotel revenue Kingdom Holding Company, the investment firm of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, reported a 10 percent increase in net profit to SAR391.2 million ($104.29 million) in the third quarter of 2023. The profit was driven by an increase in hotel and other operating revenue, higher finance income, and lower withholding and income tax. Despite […] November 10, 2023 Video length: 07:23 FII Banking and Finance World Bank to Wall Street, FII attracts financial elite Slickly choreographed dancers clad in futuristic outfits and a teenage boy in a shiny tuxedo singing a power ballad set the stage for the seventh Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, and all at nine o’clock in the morning. However, there were immediately more serious themes at play at the event, which opened on Tuesday. […] October 25, 2023 FII Tourism Red Sea Global links up with Kingdom for $530m resort Red Sea Global and Kingdom Holding Company have agreed a SAR2 billion ($530 million) joint venture to develop and own a Four Seasons resort at the Red Sea giga-project. The luxury development, scheduled to open in early 2025, will be built on Shura Island, the main hub of the 22-island giga-project. The Four Seasons resort […] October 24, 2023 Construction Doubts still swirl around completion of Jeddah Tower No final decision has been taken on construction the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, despite reports that building work on the controversial project had restarted. The planned skyscraper, which was set to be the tallest building in the world, was announced in 2009 by Kingdom Holding. Work stopped in 2017, however, after only a few […] October 3, 2023 Banking and Finance Saudi Twitter backer KHC enjoys 996% soar in profits Shares in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) rose 3.2 percent in early trading today as the Saudi firm on Wednesday reported a 996 percent year-on-year increase in earnings for the first nine months of 2022. The investment holding firm, which is 16.87 percent owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, the Public […] November 10, 2022 Analysis Banking and Finance Kingdom Holding bucks European investment exit trend Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company is investing $269 million in British insurance and asset management firm M&G Plc, despite the trend towards Middle East sovereign wealth funds backing away from Europe. M&G has over $370 billion in assets under management. Kingdom is part-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), manages a global portfolio of […] July 22, 2022 Posts navigation Previous 1 2 3
Leisure & Hospitality Kingdom Holding plans $267m dividend despite profit drop Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) plans to distribute a dividend of more than SAR1 billion ($267 million) for 2023 despite profits falling by 85 percent. The board of the investment company, founded by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, proposed a 2.8 percent cash dividend, totalling SAR1.03 billion, for 2023, subject to shareholders approval. Net profit […] March 27, 2024
Giga-projects Red Sea Global secures $522m for Four Seasons Resort Saudi giga-project developer Red Sea Global (RSG) has secured SAR2 billion ($522 million) from Riyad Bank for its latest tourism project in the Red Sea development. The financing will be used to develop Four Seasons Resort, part of a joint venture between RSG and Kingdom Holding Company, which was incorporated in December 2023. The Four […] February 12, 2024
Leisure & Hospitality Kingdom Holding, Red Sea Global set up JV to develop $533m resort Saudi-listed Kingdom Holding Company said that it has incorporated a new joint venture with Public Investment Fund-backed Red Sea Global Company to develop a tourist resort in the kingdom. East Shoura III Real Estate Company is the new venture between Kingdom Holding’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Sea Front Company, and RSG’s Red Sea Investment Co. II subsidiary. […] December 25, 2023
Finance Kingdom Holding ups stake in Citigroup with Alwaleed deal Kingdom Holding Company has increased its investment in Citigroup after buying a $450 million stake from its Saudi Arabian billionaire chairman, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. The deal has raised Kingdom’s stake to 2.2 percent from 1.63 percent, according to a filing on the Saudi Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The company did not disclose any further […] November 29, 2023
Leisure & Hospitality Kingdom Holding profit up 10% on higher hotel revenue Kingdom Holding Company, the investment firm of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, reported a 10 percent increase in net profit to SAR391.2 million ($104.29 million) in the third quarter of 2023. The profit was driven by an increase in hotel and other operating revenue, higher finance income, and lower withholding and income tax. Despite […] November 10, 2023
Video length: 07:23 FII Banking and Finance World Bank to Wall Street, FII attracts financial elite Slickly choreographed dancers clad in futuristic outfits and a teenage boy in a shiny tuxedo singing a power ballad set the stage for the seventh Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, and all at nine o’clock in the morning. However, there were immediately more serious themes at play at the event, which opened on Tuesday. […] October 25, 2023
FII Tourism Red Sea Global links up with Kingdom for $530m resort Red Sea Global and Kingdom Holding Company have agreed a SAR2 billion ($530 million) joint venture to develop and own a Four Seasons resort at the Red Sea giga-project. The luxury development, scheduled to open in early 2025, will be built on Shura Island, the main hub of the 22-island giga-project. The Four Seasons resort […] October 24, 2023
Construction Doubts still swirl around completion of Jeddah Tower No final decision has been taken on construction the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, despite reports that building work on the controversial project had restarted. The planned skyscraper, which was set to be the tallest building in the world, was announced in 2009 by Kingdom Holding. Work stopped in 2017, however, after only a few […] October 3, 2023
Banking and Finance Saudi Twitter backer KHC enjoys 996% soar in profits Shares in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) rose 3.2 percent in early trading today as the Saudi firm on Wednesday reported a 996 percent year-on-year increase in earnings for the first nine months of 2022. The investment holding firm, which is 16.87 percent owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, the Public […] November 10, 2022
Analysis Banking and Finance Kingdom Holding bucks European investment exit trend Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company is investing $269 million in British insurance and asset management firm M&G Plc, despite the trend towards Middle East sovereign wealth funds backing away from Europe. M&G has over $370 billion in assets under management. Kingdom is part-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), manages a global portfolio of […] July 22, 2022
