BASF Group posts earnings growth in first quarter; outlook for 2018 confirmed, by chemwinfo

4 May 2018

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1st Quarter 2018:

• Net Income €1,679 million (minus 2%)
• Sales of €16.6 billion (minus 1%)
• EBIT before special items of €2.5 billion (plus 2%)
• EBIT of €2.5 billion (plus 3%)
• Cash provided by operating activities of €1.2 billion
  (plus 48%);
• Free cash flow of €604 million (plus €538 million)
  
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Outlook for 2018:

• Slight sales growth, mainly resulting
  from higher sales volumes
  
  
• EBIT before special items expected
  to be slightly above 2017 level

Dr. Kurt Bock,

Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE,

commenting on the year-on-year rise

in first-quarter earnings during the BASF Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

at Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim, Germany.

“We were pleased with the development in the first quarter of 2018,

  we have had a good start to the year,” 

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