Since the formation of the Company in 1996, Fresenius Medical Care's ordinary shares have been traded on both the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse – FWB) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). On the NYSE, our ordinary shares are listed in the form of American Depositary Shares (ADS).
Basic share data
Stock exchange
Security identification codes
Reuters
Bloomberg
Germany: Frankfurt Stock Exchange/Prime Standard
FME
U.S.: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
FMS
Securities No. (WKN)
578580
ISIN
DE0005785802
CUSIP No. (NYSE)
358029106
Xetra
FMEG.DE
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
FMEG.F
ADR NYSE
FMS.N
Xetra
FME GY
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
FME GR
ADR NYSE
FMS US
Capital measures
Date
Measure
June 28, 2013
Conversion of preference shares into ordinary shares
December 4, 2012
2:1 share split at ADR
June 18, 2007
1:3 share split
October 2, 1996
First listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
October 1, 1996
First listing on the New York Stock Exchange
Index membership
As of September 20, 1999, our ordinary shares were included in the DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex), the index of the 30 blue-chip German companies.
Fresenius Medical Care’s shares are also included in a number of other important international share indices, such as the Dow Jones, MSCI and the FTSE.
Key share data
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Year-end closing price
in €
65.96
56.64
87.78
80.45
77.73
Year-high
in €
76.32
93.00
88.90
85.65
83.13
Year-low
in €
55.58
56.64
74.69
71.62
60.57
Market capitalization1
in € M
20,081
17,382
26,900
24,716
23,732
Number of shares2
in M shares
304.44
306.88
306.45
306.22
305.31
Dividend per share
in €
1.20
1.17
1.06
0.96
0.80
Dividend yield3
in %
1.82
2.1
1.2
1.2
1.3
Total dividend payout
in € M
358
359
325
294
244
Basic earnings per ordinary share (EPS)
in €
3.96
6.47
4.17
3.74
3.14
1Based on shares outstanding. 2 Shares outstanding on December 31 of the respective year. 3 With reference to the respective year-end.
