Hungary's Egis proposes HUF 120/share dividend

BUDAPEST Jan 15 (Reuters) - Hungarian pharmaceuticals firm Egis EGIS.BU plans to pay a dividend of 120 forints ($0.704) per share from its earnings for the business year to Sept. 30, 2007, pending shareholder approval, it said on Tuesday.

The proposed dividend would be unchanged from the 2005/2006 dividend, Egis said in the documents for its shareholders meeting to be held on Jan. 30, which were published on the Budapest bourse's www.bet.hu homepage. (Reporting by Sandor Peto, editing by Will Waterman)