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Saint-Gobain plans to funnel $14 billion into investments, acquisitions by 2030
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 6, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Global Banking and Finance Review
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 6, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Saint-Gobain plans to invest $14 billion by 2030 in growth and acquisitions, focusing on high-growth markets and increasing shareholder returns.
(Reuters) -Saint Gobain plans to spend around 12 billion euros ($14 billion) to grow its business through organic investments and acquisitions under its 2026-2030 strategy, which has also earmarked roughly 8 billion euros for shareholder returns, the French construction group said on Monday.
Around 6 billion euros will be paid out in dividends, with the remaining 2 billion to be distributed in share buybacks, it said.
The company also raised the financial targets for the next four years, compared to the ones it had set for 2021-2025, and said it aimed to outperform the wider market with mid-single-digit percentage growth in sales on average.
It targets a core profit (EBITDA) margin of between 15% and 18%, up from 13% to 15% seen in the previous strategy.
Saint Gobain's chairman and CEO Benoit Bazin said in a statement that the company planned to expand into new "high-growth markets", namely North America, Asia-Pacific and emerging countries.
The group expects these growth markets to account for close to 60% of its sales in the long term, versus around 50% today.
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(Reporting by Mateusz Rabiega in Gdansk, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)
An acquisition is a corporate action in which one company purchases most or all of another company's shares to gain control of that company.
EBITDA stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. It is a measure of a company's overall financial performance.
Shareholder returns refer to the profit that shareholders receive from their investment in a company, typically through dividends and stock buybacks.
Organic growth refers to the growth a company achieves by increasing output and enhancing sales through its existing operations, rather than through mergers or acquisitions.
A corporate strategy is a plan that outlines how a company will achieve its goals and objectives, including decisions about investments, acquisitions, and market expansion.
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