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Equity (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Equity |
Schedule of share movements |
|  | Total Ordinary Shares |
Total shares as of December 31, 2015 |  | 96,129,146,433 |
Capitalization of retained earnings |  | 1,495,200,997 |
Total shares as of December 31, 2016 |  | 97,624,347,430 |
Capitalization of retained earnings |  | 1,819,784,762 |
Total Shares as of December 31, 2017 |  | 99,444,132,192 |
Schedule of shareholder's composition | As of December 31, 2016, the shareholder composition was as follows:
Corporate Name or Shareholder’s Name |  | Shares |  | % of Equity Holding |
Sociedad Administradora de la Obligación Subordinada SAOS S.A. |  | 28,593,701,789 |  | 29.29 |
LQ Inversiones Financieras S.A. |  | 25,694,731,690 |  | 26.32 |
Sociedad Matriz del Banco de Chile S.A. |  | 12,138,561,434 |  | 12.43 |
Other minority shareholders |  | 31,197,352,517 |  | 31.96 |
Total |  | 97,624,347,430 |  | 100.00 |
As of December 31, 2017, the shareholder composition was as follows:
Corporate Name or Shareholder’s Name |  | Shares |  | % of Equity Holding |
Sociedad Administradora de la Obligación Subordinada SAOS S.A. |  | 28,593,701,789 |  | 28.75 |
LQ Inversiones Financieras S.A. |  | 26,733,861,635 |  | 26.88 |
Sociedad Matriz del Banco de Chile S.A. |  | 12,138,567,444 |  | 12.21 |
Other minority shareholders |  | 31,978,001,324 |  | 32.16 |
Total |  | 99,444,132,192 |  | 100.00 |
Schedule of dividends declared and paid |
|  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |
Dividends on ordinary shares MCh$ (*): |  | 367,445 |  | 366,654 |  | 342,034 |
Dividends per ordinary share Ch$(1): |  | 3.88 |  | 3.81 |  | 3.50 |
(*) This dividend per share is composed of the dividend paid to the Central Bank and common shareholders in the amounts of MCh$142,003 and MCh$200,031, respectively. The Central Bank has 29,161.4 million shares with a payment of Ch$4.8695630 per common share of Banco de Chile and for common shareholders the number of shares are 68,462.9 million with a payment of Ch$2.9217378 per common share of Banco de Chile. (1) Dividends per share are calculated by dividing the amount of the dividend paid during each year by the previous year’s number of shares outstanding.
Schedule of the income and share data used in the calculation of EPS |
|  | As of December 31, |
|  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |
Basic and diluted earnings per share: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net profits attributable to ordinary equity holders of the Bank |  | MCh$ | 609,903 |  | 575,051 |  | 572,080 |
Weighted average number of ordinary shares (*) |  | 99,444,132,192 |  | 99,444,132,192 |  | 99,444,132,192 |
Earnings per share |  | Ch$ | 6.13 |  | 5.78 |  | 5.75 |
(*) During 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Bank capitalized 1,473,778,889, 1,495,200,997 and 1,819,784,762 shares respectively, which are considered in the earnings per share calculation as if they had been outstanding during all periods presented.

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