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About the company
BASF SE operates as a chemical company worldwide. It operates through six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural Solutions. The Chemicals segment provides petrochemicals and intermediates. The Materials segment offers advanced materials and their precursors for applications and systems comprising isocyanates, polyamides, and inorganic basic products, as well as specialties for the plastics and plastics processing industries. The Industrial Solutions segment develops and markets ingredients and additives for industrial applications, such as polymer dispersions, resins, additives, chemical and refining catalysts, electronic materials, and antioxidants for automotive, petrochemical and petroleum processing, plastics and electronics, construction, electronics, paper coatings, and energy and resources industries. The Surface Technologies segment provides catalysts, battery materials, automotive OEM and refinish coatings, surface treatment, and precious and base metal services for the automotive and chemical industries. The Nutrition & Care segment offers ingredients for consumer applications in the areas of nutrition, home, and personal care applications; and serves the food and feed producers, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, detergents, and cleaner industries, as well as the consumer goods sector. The Agricultural Solutions segment provides seeds and traits, and seed treatment products; fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and biological crop protection products; and digital solutions. The company engages in engineering and other; rental and leasing; and renewable energy trading, commodity trading activities. BASF SE was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.
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Dividend deep dive
BASF SE operates in the Chemicals industry within the Basic Materials sector. The company currently offers a dividend yield of 4.63%. This yield is below its 5-year average of 6.4%, and below the 5-year high of 7.41%, indicating a potentially overvalued position based on yield theory. The company's dividend safety is categorized as "at_risk."
Dividend history
BASF SE has not increased its dividend for 0 consecutive years. The company's 3-year dividend CAGR is -12.86%, and its 5-year CAGR is -7.37%, indicating a downward trend in dividend growth over these periods. Historical annual dividends in EUR per share include 2.70 (2014), 2.80 (2015), 2.90 (2016), 3.00 (2017), 3.10 (2018), 3.20 (2019), 3.30 (2020), 3.30 (2021), 3.40 (2022), 3.40 (2023), 3.40 (2024), and a projected 2.25 (2025).
Dividend safety
The dividend safety for BASF SE is currently considered "at_risk." The payout ratio stands at 132.35% based on EPS, suggesting the dividend is not fully covered by earnings. Leverage metrics show a debt-to-equity ratio of 66.724%.
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