carrefour sa said tuesday that it would start a new share buyback and raised its dividend after sales and earnings for 2022 rose beating expectations the french grocer said it would start a new buyback of 800 million euros 8581 million the second since last year and raised its dividend by 8 to eur056 per share the buyback will be completed in the course of the current year carrefour said the company posted net profit of eur135 billion for the year up from eur107 billion the year prior and beating analysts expectation of eur999 million recurring operating income rose to eur238 billion in 2022 from eur227 billion the previous year while operating income was eur246 billion in 2022 up from eur191 billion in 2021 sales rose to eur8139 billion in the full year from eur7296 billion the previous year in the fourth quarter sales reached eur2498 billion with the home region of france totaling eur1150 billion almost 6 more than the previous year the company said looking ahead at 2023 carrefour said it expects growth in earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization as well as in recurring operating income and net free cash flow