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 |
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Dividend |
0.6 |
2.2 |
3.2 |
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Plus special bonus per share |
– |
– |
– |
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Dividend yield (%) |
1.0 |
2.0 |
2.8 |
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Net result for the year |
112.8 |
352.6 |
490.7 |
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Dividend payout (million) |
29.8 |
109.3 |
159.0 |
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Distribution ratio (%) |
26.0 |
31.0 |
32.4 |
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