Full-Year 2022 Reporting on February 24, 2023
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Latest Publication
BASF shows resilience in a challenging market environment and implements measures to strengthen competitiveness
- Sales 2022: €87.3 billion (plus 11.1 percent)
- EBIT before special items 2022: €6.9 billion (minus 11.5 percent)
- Cash flows from operating activities 2022: €7.7 billion (plus 6.4 percent); Free cash flow 2022: €3.3 billion (minus 10.2 percent)
- Proposed dividend of €3.40 per share for business year 2022 (2021: €3.40 per share)
- Presentation of concrete measures to save costs in Europe and to adapt Verbund structures in Ludwigshafen
Outlook 2023:
- Sales of between €84 billion and €87 billion expected
- EBIT before special items of between €4.8 billion and €5.4 billion expected
BASF on the capital market
Proposed dividend of €3.40 per share
It is to be proposed to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting that a dividend of €3.40 per share, at the same level as previous year, and thus €3.0 billion be paid out to the shareholders of BASF SE.
With this proposed dividend, BASF shares offer a high dividend yield of around 7.3% based on the year-end share price for 2022. BASF is part of the DivDAX share index, which contains the 15 companies with the highest dividend yield in the DAX 40.
Broad base of international shareholders
With over 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 the end of 2022 showed that, at around 19% of share capital, the United States and Canada made up the largest regional group of institutional investors. Institutional investors from Germany accounted for around 6%. Institutional investors from the United Kingdom and Ireland hold 7% of BASF shares, while investors from the rest of Europe hold a further 11% of capital. 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 DAX companies with the largest percentage of private shareholders.
