profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
BASF
€54.27-0.33% today
+24.4% since Dec 21, 25
1-year low €43.621-year high €56.09
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay €29.64 for every €1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What BASF sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €87.3 billion in 2022 to €59.7 billion in 2025, with €1.62 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
BASF handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
€2.1B
Free cash flow 2025€1.3B
Bought back its own shares€355M
Paid as dividends€2.1B
Cash vs. debt€2.7B vs. €23.2B
BASF vs. similar companies
BASF grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASF | 29.6× · Fair price | ||
 Shin-Etsu Chemical | 19.4× · Fair price | ||
 Saudi Basic Industries | No profit yet | ||
 Dow | No profit yet | ||
 Rongsheng Petrochemical | 132.5× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads BASF's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87,327 | 68,902 | 61,443 | 59,656 | |
| 21,067 | 16,702 | 15,219 | 14,359 | |
| 7,361 | 3,258 | 2,970 | 2,860 | |
| 6,111 | 7,332 | 7,545 | 7,595 | |
| -627 | 225 | 1,298 | 1,619 | |
| -0.70 | 0.25 | 1.45 | 1.81 | |
| 24.1% | 24.2% | 24.8% | 24.1% | |
| 8.4% | 4.7% | 4.8% | 4.8% | |
| -0.7% | 0.3% | 2.1% | 2.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 84,472 | 77,395 | 80,415 | 76,174 |
| Cash | 2,516 | 2,624 | 2,914 | 2,670 |
| Total debt | 20,949 | 21,347 | 23,995 | 23,209 |
| Total liabilities | 43,549 | 40,750 | 43,532 | 41,837 |
| 39,573 | 35,277 | 35,599 | 33,194 | |
| 903 | 895 | 895 | 894 | |
| 2.2% | 3.0% | 3.4% | 4.3% | |
| -1.6% | 0.6% | 3.6% | 4.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,709 | 8,111 | 6,946 | 5,610 | |
| 4,375 | 5,395 | 6,198 | 4,267 | |
| 3,334 | 2,716 | 748 | 1,343 | |
| Dividends paid | 3,248 | 3,094 | 3,284 | 2,086 |
| – | 70 | 46 | 355 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 29.6×
- –
- –
- 1.4×
- 0.8×
- 35.7×
- 9.0×
- 2.8%
- 3.4%
- 4.3%
Profitability
- 24.1%
- 4.8%
- 2.7%
- –
- 4.3%
- 3.2%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −11.9%
- –
- –
- –
- −0.3%
Financial health
- 2.7×
- 0.70
- –
- 3.5×
- 1.93
- –
- –
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 36%of 989
Bottom 26%of 954
Bottom 33%of 778
Bottom 9%of 940
Top 45%of 990
4.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$43a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
128.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 155.3%
News
Evonik gains on report BASF increased offer for Evonik to over €11BSeeking Alpha · Oct 23, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
28No pass
Benjamin Graham
45No pass
Philip Fisher
35No pass
Peter Lynch
31No pass
Joel Greenblatt
21No pass
Charlie Munger
25No pass
Terry Smith
23No pass
Questions about BASF
Is BASF a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the BASF AI analysis
What does BASF do?
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. It is in Chemicals, based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, with 106,428 employees.
Does BASF pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.3% a year, about 129% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €2.09 billion in dividends.
Is BASF stock halal?
No. BASF does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 48% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
Who are BASF's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Shin-Etsu Chemical, Saudi Basic Industries, Dow and Rongsheng Petrochemical. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with BASF's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.