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At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. As the world’s leading chemical company, we combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The approximately 112,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is arranged into five segments: Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Materials & Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas.

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At a glance

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The approximately 122,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is arranged into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions.

Intelligent Verbund concept

in production, technology, market, digitalization

In 90+ countries

employees contribute to our success and that of our customers worldwide

New organization

since January 1, 2019

Closer to customers

by embedding business-critical parts of the functional units into the divisions

Well-balanced portfolio

Percentage of sales in 2018

		Sales	EBITDA before special items
Chemicals	Petrochemicals Intermediates	19%	24%	1
Materials	Performance Materials Monomers	21%	32%	2
Industrial Solutions	Dispersions & Pigments Performance Chemicals	15%	11%	3
Surface Technologies	Catalysts Coatings Construction Chemicals¹	22%	13%	4
Nutrition & Care	Care Chemicals Nutrition & Health	9%	12%	5
Agricultural Solutions	Agricultural Solutions	10%	12%	6
Other		4%	(4%)	7

¹Until signing of a transaction agreement, Construction Chemicals will be reported under Surface Technologies

Key figures

Million €	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Sales	74,326	70,449	57,55	61,223¹	62,675
Income from operations before depreciation, amortization and special items	10,454	10,508	10,327	10,738¹	9,481
Income from operations before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA)	11,043	10,649	10,526	10,765¹	9,166
Income from operations (EBIT) before special items	7,357	6,739	6,309	7,645¹	6,353
Income from operations (EBIT)	7,626	6,248	6,275	7,587¹	6,033
Net income	5,155	3,987	4,056	6,078	4,707
Earnings per share (EPS) (€)	5.61	4.34	4.42	6.62	5.12
Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) (€)	5.44	5.00	4.83	6.44	5.87
Dividend per share (€)	2.80	2.90	3.00	3.10	3.20
Dividend yield² (%)	4.0	4.1	3.4	3.4	5.3
Cash flows from operating activities	6,958	9,446	7,717	8,785	7,939
Free cash flow	1,662	3,634	3,572	4,789	4,045

¹Figures for 2017 were restated due to the presentation of the oil and gas activities as discontinued operations.

²Based on year-end share price

Regional footprint 2018

Key facts

Approximately 122,000 employees worldwide – including more than 11,000 in research and development
More than 90,000 customers from various sectors in almost every country in the world
Top three market positions in around 75% of the business areas in which BASF is active
Unique Verbund concept: production plants, infrastructure, logistics, value chains, research and development and customers are intelligently connected and benefit from progressing digitalization; six world-scale Verbund sites around the globe
Know-How Verbund with eight academic research alliances, complemented by cooperations with around 300 universities and research institutes as well as collaborations with a large number of companies; approximately 3,000 research projects with customers, academia and partners; around 900 new patents filed in 2018

Last Update 17 June 2019