Henkel preferred shares are publicly listed since 1985, the ordinary shares since 1996. Both share classes are predominantly traded on the Xetra electronic market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Henkel is also represented on the floor of this and the other regional stock exchanges in Germany.

Since the issue of Henkel’s preferred share in 1985, investors who re-invested their dividends in further share purchases would, by the end of 2012, have achieved an average annual yield (excluding taxes) of 11.6 percent. Over the same period, the DAX provided an annual yield of 7.2 percent.