Proposed Dividend
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 billion1 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.
1 Based on the number of outstanding shares as of December 31, 2022 (893,854,929)