The stock exchange day: Daimler with profit plus in the Corona year

The trading day
Daimler with profit plus in the Corona year

Daimler 67.05

The corona year 2020 is a long way off for the car and truck manufacturer Daimler survived better than expected and sits down again significantly higher goals. Despite the pandemic, it has been proven that you can drive the transformation in the industry on your own, said CEO Ola Källenius. It is assumed that sales, turnover and operating profit will be significantly higher in the current year. In 2020, the bottom line was that Daimler booked one attributable to the shareholders Profit of 3.6 billion euros. That was 1.2 billion euros or 50 percent more than in the previous year. Without the so-called deduction of minority shares, 4.0 billion euros would remain – an increase of 48 percent. Of the Sales, however, fell compared to 2019 by 11 percent to 154.3 billion euros. The group wants around 1.4 billion euros as dividend to distribute to the shareholders. That would be 1.35 euros per share, 45 cents more than in the previous year.

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