The Bid & Ask

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Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

BAS.DE

Concerning the House

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. The Materials segment offers advanced materials and their precursors for applications and systems comprising isocyanates, polyamides, and inorganic basic products, as well as specialties for the plastics and plastics processing industries. The Industrial Solutions segment develops and markets ingredients and additives for industrial applications, such as polymer dispersions, resins, additives, chemical and refining catalysts, electronic materials, and antioxidants for automotive, petrochemical and petroleum processing, plastics and electronics, construction, electronics, paper coatings, and energy and resources industries. The Surface Technologies segment provides catalysts, battery materials, automotive OEM and refinish coatings, surface treatment, and precious and base metal services for the automotive and chemical industries. The Nutrition & Care segment offers ingredients for consumer applications in the areas of nutrition, home, and personal care applications; and serves the food and feed producers, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, detergents, and cleaner industries, as well as the consumer goods sector. The Agricultural Solutions segment provides seeds and traits, and seed treatment products; fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and biological crop protection products; and digital solutions. The company engages in engineering and other; rental and leasing; and renewable energy trading, commodity trading activities. BASF SE was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.

Germany · www.basf.com

The Ledger
LineDec 2024Mar 2025Jun 2025Dec 2025
Revenue$15.86B$17.40B$15.77B$14.03B
Gross profit$4.12B$4.85B$4.18B$3.11B
Operating income$1.00B$1.49B$512.00M$800.00M
Net income-$786.00M$808.00M$79.00M$560.00M
Diluted EPS0.910.09
Free cash flow$1.17B-$1.80B$532.00M$2.21B
CapEx-$2.29B-$816.00M-$1.05B-$1.43B
Quotation

$50.17

-1.10 (-2.1%)

52w hi$54.00
52w lo$39.88
Vol1.86M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.15

Short-0.06
Medium-0.22
Long-0.19

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

BASF SE

Basic Materials · Chemicals

Market cap$44.37B
Enterprise value$64.34B
Trailing P/E21.08x
Forward P/E17.10x
EV / EBITDA9.79x
P / S (ttm)0.70x
Profit margin9.4%
Return on equity6.1%
Revenue growth+16.4%
Earnings growth+5298.9%
Debt / equity71.36
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.25
Corr SPX0.14
Annual vol28.6%
Annual ret+14.3%
Sharpe0.50
Max DD-27.2%

Window: 504 trading days (489 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.19
Sector+0.03
Technical+0.00
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment-0.02

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$51.01$51.04$49.86$50.171.86M
Aug 12$51.10$51.56$50.82$51.271.16M
Aug 11$51.60$51.71$50.92$51.261.39M
Aug 10$51.64$51.83$51.03$51.631.32M
Aug 7$51.60$51.98$51.23$51.501.33M