Proposed Dividend of €3.40 per Share
The Board of Executive Directors and the Supervisory Board will propose a dividend payment of €3.40 per share to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. BASF stands by its ambitious dividend policy of increasing the per-share dividend each year and plans to pay out €3.1 billion1 to the shareholders of BASF SE.
Based on the year-end share price for 2021, BASF shares offer a high dividend yield of around 5.5%. BASF is part of the DivDAX share index, which contains the 15 companies with the highest dividend yield in the DAX 40.
1 Based on the number of outstanding shares as of December 31, 2021 (918,478,694)