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The past year gave good returns for BASF investors

Over the last 12 months, that were profitable period for the investors in BASF, the stock gained around 24 percent. Over the past 5 years BASF' stock rose at around 67 percent in value. BASF's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 78,73 billion euros and 70,45 billion euros. BASF's net results between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 6,6 billion euros and 4,3 billion euros.

BASF has located her head office Ludwigshafen. BASF primarily operates in the chemical sector. BASF is being led by CEO Prasad Chandran. The CFO of the company is Mr. S. Regunathan. The global chemical companies gained over the past 10 years on average 72 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 72 percent.

The German company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the BASF stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 13,5 percent over the past 5 years.

At the end of 2015 around 112,64 thousand people were employed at BASF.

BASF financed with a quite low debt position

At the end of 2015 the chemical company's balance sheet equaled 70,84 billion euros. Of the total balance sheet 39,92 billion euros (56,36 percent) was financed by debt. Last year the chemical company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 13. So the investors valued the stock at 13 times 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the German stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the chemical company equaled around 61,96 billion euros. At the end of 2015 around 918,48 million stocks were listed.

On this page you can find all BASF's financial reports. More information about BASF can be found it's website. .