Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co., the country’s 4th largest lender by assets, posted a solid 2025 performance, booking net income of P49.7 billion on the back of steady loan growth, resilient margins, and a sharp pickup in trading gains.
Century Properties Group, Inc. said it has enhanced its dividend policy to showcase the company’s improved financial performance, with regular dividend rate doubled to 20 percent of consolidation net income for common shares. Additionally, CPG has declared a 5 percent special cash dividend for 2025.
D&L Industries continues to build on its post-pandemic growth trajectory, reporting a 10 percent year-on-year increase in net income for the first quarter of 2025 to P681 million, buoyed by improving returns from its new Batangas manufacturing facility.
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) confirmed Bukidnon sugar farmers, millers and local officials carried out a one-week intensive spraying campaign to stop the red striped soft scale insect (RSSI), a pest that cuts sugar content by nearly half.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) have strengthened their partnership to improve how agricultural data is gathered and used across the country.
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has adopted updated regulations covering reliability performance indices and on permissible unplanned outage days for power generating units across the country.