Dividend Payment of € 0.60 per Share

The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of May 8, 2013, passed a resolution to pay out a dividend from the retained profit of € 654.3 million that was posted in 2012 (2011: € 978.7 million), setting the total dividend sum at € 29.8 million (2011: € 109.3 million). No allocations to retained earnings were made for 2012; instead, € 624.6 million was carried forward. The dividend per dividend-bearing share for 2012 was therefore € 0.60 (2011: € 2.20). The dividend was distributed to shareholders on May 9, 2013. At a volume-weighted average share price of € 60.28 in 2012 (2011: € 109.67), this produced a dividend yield of 1.0 percent.

Dividend Trends

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2012

 

2011

 

2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividend

 

0.6

 

2.2

 

3.2

Plus special bonus per share

 

 

 

Dividend yield (%)

 

1.0

 

2.0

 

2.8

Net result for the year
(allocable to WACKER’s shareholders) (million)

 

112.8

 

352.6

 

490.7

Dividend payout (million)

 

29.8

 

109.3

 

159.0

Distribution ratio (%)

 

26.0

 

31.0

 

32.4