Shares

Henkel preferred shares have been publicly listed since 1985, the ordinary shares since 1996. Both share classes are traded on all eight German stock exchanges.

Since the issue of Henkel’s preferred share in 1985, investors who reinvested the dividends received ‏(before tax deduction) in the stock would, by end of 2020, have achieved an average return of 10.4 percent per year. Over the same period, the DAX provided an annual return of 7.3 percent.

In the USA, investors are able to acquire Henkel ordinary and preferred shares by the way of stock ownership certificates obtained through the Sponsored Level I ADR (American Depositary Receipt) program. On January 3, 2019 BNY Mellon, as Depositary, at the direction of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, announced a ratio change on the Depositary Receipt program from 1 ADR representing 1 share to the new ratio of 4 ADRs representing 1 share effective from January 15, 2019.

Share Data

	Preferred shares	Ordinary shares
Security code	604843	604840
ISIN code	DE0006048432	DE0006048408
Stock exchange symbol	HEN3.ETR	HEN.ETR
Reuters	HNKGPR	HNKG
Bloomberg	HEN3	HEN
SEDOL	5076705	5002465
Number of shares	178,162,875	259,795,875
Number of outstanding shares	174,482,323*	259,795,875
_{* Excl. treasury shares as of December 31, 2020}

Preferred shares were issued with a par value of 50 DM each for the initial public offering. Because of the change of par value from 50 DM to 5 DM on July 2,1996 and a share split in the ratio of 1:3 on June 18, 2007, this currently corresponds to 30 shares.

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Shareholder Structure

61.56 percent of our ordinary shares are held by members of the Henkel family share-pooling agreement.¹ Compared to the ordinary shares, our preferred shares are the significantly more liquid class of Henkel stock. Apart from the treasury shares (2.07 percent), they are entirely in free float. A large majority are owned by institutional investors whose portfolios are usually broadly distributed internationally.

¹ As of March 1, 2021.