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basf se (BAS) Snapshot

Open
€74.39
Previous Close
€74.36
Day High
€74.79
Day Low
€72.64
52 Week High
02/25/13 - €76.20
52 Week Low
06/28/12 - €51.13
Market Cap
67.5B
Average Volume 10 Days
2.8M
EPS TTM
€4.97
Shares Outstanding
918.5M
EX-Date
04/29/13
P/E TM
14.8x
Dividend
€2.60
Dividend Yield
3.54%
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basf se (BAS) Details

BASF SE operates as a chemical company worldwide. The company’s Chemicals segment provides basic chemicals, glues, and electronic chemicals for the semiconductor and solar cell industries; solvents and plasticizers; and starting materials for detergents, plastics, textile fibers, paints and coatings, crop protection products, and pharmaceuticals. Its Plastics segment offers performance polymers, such as engineering plastics, polyamides, and polyamide intermediates, as well as foams and specialty plastics; and polyurethanes, including basic products, tailor-made systems, and specialties for the construction and automotive industries, and household appliances. The company’s Performance Products segment offers dispersions and pigments for the formulation of coatings, printing and packaging inks, varnishes, adhesives, and construction materials; care chemicals for hygiene, personal care, home care, and industrial and institutional cleaning businesses; products for the food and feed, flavor and fragrance, and pharmaceutical industries; paper chemicals; and performance chemicals for industrial applications. Its Functional Solutions segment offers automotive and industrial catalysts; battery materials; automotive and industrial coatings; concrete admixtures; and construction systems, such as tile adhesives and decorative paints. The company’s Agricultural Solutions segment provides fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides; seed treatment products; and pest control products for public health, professional pest control, and landscape maintenance. Its Oil and Gas segment engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, South America, and the Caspian Sea region; and trade, transportation, and storage of natural gas in Europe. BASF SE has strategic alliances with Owens Corning and TenCate Advanced Composites. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.

111,687 Employees
Last Reported Date: 04/26/13
Founded in 1865

basf se (BAS) Top Compensated Officers

Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors
Total Annual Compensation: €4.4M
Chief Financial Officer, Member of the Board ...
Total Annual Compensation: €2.3M
Research Executive Director, Head of Ressort ...
Total Annual Compensation: €2.2M
Head of Ressort VI and Member of the Board of...
Total Annual Compensation: €1.5M
Industrial Relations Director and Member of t...
Total Annual Compensation: €2.2M
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012.

basf se (BAS) Key Developments

BASF Mulls Acquisitions

BASF SE (DB:BAS) is seeking acquisitions. BASF SE (BAS.XE) is seeking acquisition targets in the insecticide sector as it continues to expand its crop protection operation, a senior company official said.

BASF Licenses Genomatica Technology for Butanediol Production

BASF has licensed Genomatica's technology to manufacture 1,4-butanediol, based on renewable feedstock (renewable BDO), which will be available in the second half of 2013 for sampling and trials. BASF will construct a manufacturing plant, which will employ the Genomatica one-step fermentation process, based on sugars as a renewable feedstock to produce BDO as part of the license agreement. Under the agreement, Genomatica will continue to advance its renewable BDO production process technology based on sugars, while BASF will manufacture renewable BDO.

BASF SE Approves Dividend, Payable on or After April 29, 2013

BASF SE at its annual shareholders meeting held on April 26, 2013, confirmed the distribution of a dividend of EUR 2.60 per qualifying share for the financial year 2012. The dividend will be paid on or after April 29, 2013 net of 26.375% German withholding tax (25% German capital yields tax and 5.5% solidarity surtax). Depending on shareholders personal circumstances church tax will be withheld automatically.

 

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Price/Sales 0.9x
Price/Book 2.6x
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