Dividend Payment of € 0.50 per Share
At the Wacker Chemie AG Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in Munich on May 15, 2014, a large majority of shareholders voted to adopt the Executive and Supervisory Boards’ dividend proposal. Of Wacker Chemie AG’s 2013 retained profit of € 636.1 million (2012: € 654.3 million), WACKER paid out € 24.8 million to its shareholders (2012: € 29.8 million). That corresponds to a dividend per dividend-bearing share of € 0.50 (2013: € 0.60). At a volume-weighted average share price of € 64.47 in 2013 (2012: € 60.28), this produced a dividend yield of 0.78 percent.
Dividend Trends
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2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
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Dividend |
0.50 |
0.60 |
2.20 |
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Plus special bonus per share |
– |
– |
– |
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Dividend yield (%) |
0.78 |
1.0 |
2.0 |
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Net result for the year (allocable to WACKER’s shareholders) (million) |
2.6 |
120.7 |
352.6 |
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Dividend payout (million) |
24.8 |
29.8 |
109.3 |
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Distribution ratio (%) |
> 100 |
24.7 |
31.0 |
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