- Shareholders approve dividend of €1.10 per share and authorisation for further share buybacks
- Actions of Board of Managing Directors and Supervisory Board ratified by Annual General Meeting
Today, the Annual General Meeting of Commerzbank approved all items on the agenda by a large majority. Shareholders paid tribute to the achievements delivered and clearly reaffirmed their support for the “Momentum 2030” strategy and the Bank’s stand-alone course. They approved the dividend proposal for the 2025 financial year of €1.10 per share (2024: €0.65) with a majority of 99.88% (agenda item 2). In total, the dividend payment amounts to around €1.2bn.
Together with two share buybacks already completed with a total volume of around €1.5bn, Commerzbank will return a total of around €2.7bn to its shareholders for the 2025 financial year. This corresponds to 100% of the net result before restructuring expenses and after deduction of AT 1 coupon payments.
For the coming years, the Bank plans to continuously increase the capital return. Commerzbank continues to rely on a combination of dividend payments and share buybacks, with the share of the dividend to grow to at least 50%. The share buybacks are subject to approval by the European Central Bank and the Finance Agency.
The Annual General Meeting approved the necessary authorisations to acquire and use its own shares (agenda items 7 and 8) – with majorities of 96.25% and of 97.79%, respectively. This means that Commerzbank has once again the opportunity to acquire its own shares up to a volume of 10% of the share capital via the stock exchange or through multilateral trading systems.
The shareholders voted on the other key items on the agenda as follows:
Ratification of the Board of Managing Directors and Supervisory Board (agenda items 3 and 4)
The actions by the members of the Board of Managing Directors were ratified by the Annual General Meeting with a majority between 99.58% and 99.64%. The actions by the members of the Supervisory Board were ratified with a majority between 98.36% and 99.64%.
Remuneration report for the members of the Board of Managing Directors and Supervisory Board (agenda item 6)
The Annual General Meeting approved the remuneration report for the 2025 financial year with a majority of 91.28%.
Further information on this year’s Annual General Meeting can be found at www.commerzbank.de/agm. Photos of the event are also available online.
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About Commerzbank
With its two business segments – Corporate Clients and Private and Small-Business Customers –, Commerzbank , as a full-service bank, offers a comprehensive portfolio of financial services. It is the leading bank in the Corporate Clients Business in Germany and for the German Mittelstand and a strong partner for around 24,000 corporate client groups and accounts for approximately 30% of German foreign trade. The Bank is present internationally in more than 40 countries in the corporate clients’ business – wherever its Mittelstand clients, large corporates, and institutional clients need it. In addition, Commerzbank supports its international clients with a business relationship to Germany, Austria, or Switzerland and companies operating in selected future-oriented industries. With more than €400bn assets under management, Commerzbank is also one of the leading banks for private and small-business customers in Germany. Under the brand Commerzbank , it offers a wide range of products and services with an omni-channel approach: online and mobile, via phone or video in the remote advisory centre, and in person at its around 400 locations across Germany. Under the brand comdirect, it offers all core services as a digital primary bank 24/7 and, as a performance broker, solutions for saving, investing, and securities trading. Its Polish subsidiary mBank S.A. is an innovative digital bank that serves around 6 million private and corporate customers, predominantly in Poland, as well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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