Profile
With a crude steel capacity exceeding 7 million tons per year, a workforce of more than 24,000 employees, and external sales totaling around € 7 billion for the financial year 2020, the Salzgitter Group ranks among Europe’s leading steel technology and plant engineering corporations. Worldwide, the Group comprises more than 150 subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Our core competencies lie in the production and processing of rolled steel and tubes products and trading in those products. We also operate a business in special machinery and plant engineering. The Group, headed by Salzgitter AG (SZAG) as the holding company, is divided into the five business units of Strip Steel, Plate / Section Steel, Mannesmann, Trading and Technology.
The product portfolio includes a wide variety of strip steel products, beams, heavy plate, as well as seamless and welded tubes in all dimensions. Furthermore, Salzgitter AG manufactures processed products for the automotive and construction industries. The Technology Business Unit comprises several specialist machine construction companies, including one of the world's leading manufacturers of filling and packaging plants for the beverages, food and non-food industry.
The share of Salzgitter AG is listed on the SDAX index of Deutsche Börse AG.
| 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | ||
| Nominal capital1) | € m | 161.6 | 161.6 | 161.6 | 161.6 | 161.6 |
| Number of shares1) | units m | 60.1 | 60.1 | 60.1 | 60.1 | 60.1 |
| Number of shares outstanding1) | units m | 54.1 | 54.1 | 54.1 | 54.1 | 54.1 |
| Market capitalization1)2) | € m | 1,174.0 | 1,069.0 | 1,383.3 | 2,575.2 | 1,815.1 |
| Year-end closing price1)3) | € | 21.70 | 19.76 | 25.57 | 47.60 | 33.55 |
| Stock market high3) | € | 21.98 | 31.51 | 52.48 | 48.57 | 35.47 |
| Stock market low3) | € | 7.77 | 14.13 | 25.08 | 29.74 | 16.81 |
| Earnings per share/EPS4)5) | € | -5.13 | -4.46 | 5.06 | 3.52 | 1.00 |
| Cashflow per share/CPS4)5) | € | 0.34 | 4.63 | 9.76 | 5.06 | 5.37 |
| Dividend per share (DPS) | € | – | – | 0.55 | 0.45 | 0.30 |
| Total dividend | € m | – | – | 29.7 | 24.3 | 16.2 |
