Factbook

BASF on the Capital Market

Broad base of international shareholders

With around 900,000 shareholders, BASF is one of the largest publicly owned companies with a high free float. An analysis of the shareholder structure carried out at year-end 2025 showed that, at around 23% of share capital, the United States and Canada made up the largest regional group of institutional investors. Institutional investors from Germany accounted for 5%. Institutional investors from the United Kingdom and Ireland hold 7% of BASF shares, while investors from the rest of Europe hold a further 10% of capital. Institutional investors from the rest of the world, including the Asia Pacific region, hold 3% of BASF shares. Approximately 45% of the company’s share capital is held by private investors, nearly all of whom reside in Germany. BASF is therefore one of the DAX40 companies with the largest percentage of private shareholders.

Shareholder structure

By region, rounded

1 as of December 31, 2025

Distributions to shareholders

BASF has set itself the target of distributing at least €12 billion to shareholders from 2025 to 2028 through a combination of dividends and share buybacks.

Specifically, the company intends to pay a dividend of at least €2.25 per share or around €2 billion each year. For 2025, BASF paid a dividend of €2.25 per share and paid out around €2 billion to its shareholders. Based on the year-end share price for 2025, BASF shares offer a dividend yield of 5.1%.

The total dividend distribution of at least around €8 billion over the four-year period will be supplemented by share buybacks of at least around €4 billion. As announced as part of the “Winning Ways” strategy, share buybacks were planned to start in 2027 at the latest. In view of the cash inflows already received and still expected, in particular from portfolio measures, the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE has resolved to buy back shares with a volume of up to €1.5 billion between November 2025 and the end of June 2026. This accelerated share buyback is part of the share buyback announced in September 2024 for a total of at least €4 billion by the end of 2028.

BASF – a sustainable investment

BASF shares are particularly attractive for investors looking for businesses with strong performance with respect to the environment, society and governance (ESG). In analyses by leading ESG rating agencies, BASF is often recognized as benchmark within the chemical industry. They specifically highlight our integrated sustainability reporting, business ethics and the development of sustainable products.

In 2025, BASF again achieved Prime status (B-) in the ISS ESG rating developed by Institutional Shareholder Services, placing it in the top 10% of the companies assessed. In Morningstar Sustainalytics’¹ ESG Risk Ratings, BASF belongs to the best category for “diversified chemicals” with a medium ESG risk rating and was recognized for its strong risk management. MSCI ESG Research awarded BASF a BBB rating in 2025. The analysts highlighted BASF’s performance in terms of governance, low CO₂ intensity and robust water management.

BASF has participated in the program established by the international organization CDP for reporting on data relevant to climate protection since 2004. CDP represents more than 640 capital markets signatories with $127 trillion in assets and more than 330 major organizations with $6.4 trillion in purchasing power. In 2025, CDP awarded BASF Leadership status in the categories of climate protection (A), water management (A-) and forest protection (A) based on the company’s disclosures for the 2024 business year.

1 Morningstar Sustainalytics provides institutional investors and companies with ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics.

American depositary receipts

American depositary receipts (ADRs) allow U.S. institutional and retail investors to trade and own non-U.S. companies directly through the U.S. equity markets. BASF has a sponsored level 1 program, which is traded on OTC-QX, the platform for international quality companies on OTC markets. BASF’s ADRs (Symbol: BASFY) are included in International PremierQX, the highest OTC market tier.

For further information, see basf.com/share

Analysts’ recommendations

More than 20 financial analysts regularly publish reports on BASF. The latest analyst recommendations for our shares as well as the average target share price ascribed to BASF by analysts can be found online at basf.com/analystestimate.

Further information on BASF share

Securities code numbers
Germany	BASF11
United States (CUSIP number)	055262505
ISIN International Securities Identification Number	DE000BASF111

International ticker symbols
Deutsche Börse	BAS
Pink Sheets / OTCQX	BASFY (ADR)
Bloomberg (Xetra trading)	BAS GY
Reuters (Xetra trading)	BASFn.DE

Shareholder return

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Dividends (million €)	2,755	2,847	2,939	3,031	3,031	3,072	3,035	3,035	2,008	1,964
Dividend per share (€)	3.00	3.10	3.20	3.30	3.30	3.40	3.40	3.40	2.25	2.25
Share price at year-end (€/share)	88.31	91.74	60.40	67.35	64.72	61.78	46.39	48.78	42.46	44.43
Dividend yield¹(%)	3.4	3.4	5.3	4.9	5.1	5.5	7.3	7.0	5.3	5.1
Payout ratio (%)	68	47	63	36	.	57	.	.	155	124
Price/earnings ratio (P/E ratio)¹	20.0	13.9	11.8	7.3	.	10.3	.	195.1	29.3	24.4
Free cash flow yield² (%)	4.4	5.7	7.3	5.9	3.8	6.5	8.0	6.2	2.0	3.4

1 Based on year-end share price

2 Free cash flow per share at year-end divided by share price at year-end

Last UpdateMay 28, 2026