Stock · BAS.DE · Basic Materials
Germany · Large Cap · Revenue 12 mo. €61.6B
Price as of 11/06/2026
BASF SE operates as a chemical company worldwide.
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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Summary
42.9 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.3B (2025), it supports €14.9B. The remaining €31.7B of the market value assume it grows 15.9% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
15.9%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 10.2×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 5.4× to 7.0×, median 6.1×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 4.88% | 10.66% | Rank 25 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 6.29% | 14.75% | Rank 15 |
| EBIT margin | 4.29% | 15.82% | Rank 9 |
| FCF margin | 2.25% | 8.70% | Rank 22 |
| Gross margin | 23.87% | 34.18% | Rank 23 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | −2.91% | 4.25% | Rank 23 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 0.28% | |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 13.36% | |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 7.15% | 9.35% | Rank 39 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.34% | 4.98% | Rank 35 |
| FCF yield | 2.88% | 3.94% | Rank 37 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 1.15 | 2.36 | Rank 75 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 26.69 | 14.61 | Rank 18 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 16.92% | 8.75% | Rank 66 |
| Share price, 6 months | 5.58% | −1.37% | Rank 69 |
| Share price, 3 months | 10.53% | −1.16% | Rank 86 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −3.23% | −21.97% | Rank 95 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −0.99% | 0.63% | Rank 67 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −0.12% | −0.01% | Rank 55 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 3 | Rank 14 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 1.15% | 0.05% | Rank 63 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 42.54% | 54.83% | Rank 24 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.11 | 1.01 | Rank 13 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.74 | 0.37 | Rank 23 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 24.75% | 37.23% | Rank 91 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, €B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, €B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 57.6 | 10.9% | €3.6B | 920M | 15.5 |
| 2017 | 61.2 | 12.4% | €4.8B | 920M | 12.2 |
| 2018 | 60.2 | 9.2% | €4.0B | 921M | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 59.3 | 6.8% | €3.7B | 918M | 18.0 |
| 2020 | 59.1 | 5.6% | €2.3B | 918M | 16.9 |
| 2021 | 78.6 | 8.9% | €3.7B | 920M | 16.5 |
| 2022 | 87.3 | 7.7% | €3.3B | 902M | 18.4 |
| 2023 | 68.9 | 5.5% | €2.7B | 895M | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 61.4 | 5.5% | €748.0M | 895M | 21.1 |
| 2025 | 59.7 | 4.3% | €1.3B | 894M | 21.8 |
0 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
BASF SE mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
BASF SE is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
0 of 7 rules met
0 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for BASF SE.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 30.0 | 19.6 |
| P/B ratio | 1.5 | 2.1 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 4.9% | 10.7% |
| Equity ratio | 42.5% | 54.8% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.74 | 0.37 |
| Dividend yield | 4.1% | 2.1% |
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|---|---|---|
| BAS.DE | BASF SEthis page | |
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