(BFM Stock Exchange) – The company specializing in the distribution and storage of energy liquid products leaps on the stock market on press information evoking a potential interest of the CVC fund but also of the Swiss oil merchant Trafigura Group for a buyout of Rubis.

Rubis starts the week on the wheel hats. The company specializing in the distribution and storage of energy liquid products still jumped 6.7% on the Paris Stock Exchange, around 10:40 am.

This burst is to be credited with an article published by Bloomberg on Friday September 12, which reports that several companies would have demonstrated brands of interest for Rubis.

The contenders in question are the CVC investment fund and the Swiss raw material trading giant Trafigura, which would study each on their side, a buyout of the company specializing in the distribution and storage of liquid products indicate sources close to the file in Bloomberg.

These same sources have also added to the agency that the deliberations are underway and companies may decide not to conclude any agreement.

Contacted by News Bulletin 247, a Rubis spokesperson was not immediately available. Questioned by Bloomberg, CVC and Trafigura refused to comment on this information.

A shareholder sling

This information emerges while the action has lost almost half of its value from its highest history of 57.836 euros reached in May 2018. This weakness of the course could inspire a possible operation. In November 2024, the agency already indicated that Rubis explored several tracks for a sale.

Bloomberg also recalls that the energy distributor underwent its two main shareholders, namely the French entrepreneur Patrick Molis, who strengthened in capital last spring, and the Canadian businessman Ronald Sämann, who holds 6% of the group’s capital, according to information available on the Rubis website.

The Molis family and Canadian businessman Ronald Sämann wanted society to modify its governance, a subject that has crystallized tensions between Rubis and its shareholders. Then on the occasion of the publication of its 2024 accounts in March 2025, Rubis had expressed changes to its governance as part of the process of succession of its founders. On the other hand, the company’s commandity status, perceived as a fortress in the face of the risk of external control taking, is not intended to be modified.

The other axis of tension concerned ruby ​​investments in solar energy. In 2024, Ronald Sämann had clearly criticized the boom in renewable energies through “the acquisition of Photosol, at a high valuation level and very low profitability”, produced in 2021, recalled our colleagues from BFM Business in May 2024.

A title that 30% has taken up since 2025

Since the start of the year, the title Rubis has taken over and has won more than 30%. The group has chained good publications this year, and the file was supported on the stock market by the various reinforcements to the capital of the Molis family and Vincent Bolloré, two shareholders with a activist profile.

The group also confirmed its annual ambitions on Tuesday, September 9, after a 26% increase in its net profit in the first half. For 2025, the gross operating result of Rubis should be between 710 and 760 million euros, “assuming a stable impact of hyperinflation compared to 2024”. This objective reflects an increase of 2% over a year of this indicator on the basis of a range of 735 million euros.