Trade Société Générale with LHFX

Societe Generale SA is one of France's three largest banks and a European universal-banking group, headquartered in La Defense, Paris, and listed on Euronext Paris as a CAC 40 constituent. The group operates across three core divisions: French Retail, Private Banking and Insurance (around 35% of 2024 revenue, including the SG retail network, the Boursorama digital-bank challenger which crossed 7 million customers in 2024, and the insurance arm Sogecap), International Retail Banking and Financial Services (around 25%, including consumer finance through Ayvens after the 2023 ALD-LeasePlan merger and remaining international footprints in Czech Republic, Romania, and Africa), and Global Banking and Investor Solutions (around 40%, including global markets, financing and advisory, and securities services). 2024 group revenue was near 26.8 billion euros with net income above 4 billion euros. The bank's CET1 ratio was around 13.1% at end-2024. Societe Generale completed the divestment of Russian subsidiary Rosbank in May 2022 at a 3.3 billion euro loss, removing the structural Russia exposure that had weighed on the group through 2022. Sogecap and the Insurance segment provide a counter-cyclical buffer to banking earnings, with stable life-insurance reserves above 130 billion euros. Boursorama has grown into the largest French online retail bank, with over 7 million customers as of 2024 and a multi-year break-even path completed in 2023. The Ayvens auto-leasing platform (the post-ALD-LeasePlan combined entity) is the largest in Europe by fleet size and a meaningful contributor to International Retail. At LHFX you trade Societe Generale as a CFD on SOGN.PA, not as a shareholder. You profit or lose based on the Euronext Paris-quoted EUR price moving in or against your position, and you can go long or short. You never receive the underlying share, voting rights, or cash dividends, but your account is credited or debited a dividend adjustment when SOGN.PA trades ex-dividend so economic exposure stays equivalent. Societe Generale pays one annual dividend in May. Maximum leverage is 1:20 and trading hours follow Euronext Paris, roughly 03:00 to 11:30 ET, Monday to Friday.

Open an LHFX account, fund it (minimum 10 USD), and add SOGN.PA to your MetaTrader 5 Market Watch. The symbol is denominated in EUR; P&L converts to your account base currency at end of day. Spreads on SOGN.PA are raw, with a flat 3 USD per side commission. Maximum leverage is 1:20, so a 1,000 EUR position requires 50 EUR of margin. Worked example. With Societe Generale quoted around 30 EUR, opening 10 share equivalents of long SOGN.PA at 1:20 leverage requires roughly 15 EUR in margin (300 / 20). A 5% adverse move costs 15 EUR, which is 100% of the margin posted. Scale to 50 share equivalents and you are at 75 EUR margin against a 75 EUR loss on a 5% drop. SOGN.PA typically trades in a 2 to 3% daily range, with earnings-day or French-political moves of 5 to 8% common. Set a stop loss before entry. The biggest single-session catalysts are quarterly earnings, ECB rate decisions, French parliamentary or budgetary developments (the OAT-bund spread widening), and capital markets days. The 2023 SVB and Credit Suisse stress days produced contagion-driven moves above 8% in SOGN.PA on at least two sessions. Euronext Paris closes at 11:30 ET. Overnight swap is charged on notional exposure and updates inside MT5 symbol specifications.