The Israel Investors Corporation, an American investment firm with holdings in more than 20 Israeli companies, last year earned a record total of $647,866 in net income on its investments, the firm reported today. Company holdings totaled more than $15,000,000 at the end of 1962, compared with $10,000,000 a year earlier. Cash dividends paid by the company in 1962 totaled $4.50 per share, compared with $4. in dividends paid in the previous year.
The Israel Investors Corporation, which has some 4,700 stockholders, has investments in Israeli firms in the fields of banking, chemicals, textiles, oil and gas, investment, shipping and utilities.
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