Company
Wacker Chemie AG
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Employees: 14,283
CEO: Dr. Christian Hartel
Market Cap
€3.16 Billion
EUR as of Jan. 1, 2025
US$3.28 Billion
Wacker Chemie AG Categories
Germany Basic Materials Specialty ChemicalsGermany Basic Materials Germany Specialty Chemicals
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Detailed Description
Wacker Chemie AG provides chemical products worldwide. It operates through four divisions: Wacker Silicones, Wacker Polymers, Wacker Biosolutions, and Wacker Polysilicon. The Wacker Silicones division offers silanes, siloxanes, silicone fluids, silicone emulsions, silicone elastomers, silicone resins, and pyrogenic silicas for use in construction, electronics, automotive, personal care, paint, and coating solutions. The Wacker Polymers division provides binders and polymeric additives, such as dispersible polymer powder and vinyl acetate-ethylene dispersions, which are used in construction, paper, adhesive, paint, coating, and basic chemical industries. The Wacker Biosolutions division offers customized biotech and catalog products for fine chemicals, such as pharmaceutical proteins, vaccines, cyclodextrins, cysteine, polyvinyl acetate solid resins, and acetylacetone for pharmaceutical actives, food additives, and agrochemicals. The Wacker Polysilicon division produces hyperpure polysilicon for use in semiconductor and solar sectors. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Wacker Chemie AG is a subsidiary of Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH.
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Financials
| Last Financial Reports Date | Dec. 31, 2019 |
| Revenue TTM | €5.77 B |
| EBITDA | €785.3 M |
| Gross Profit TTM | €878.2 M |
| Profit Margin | 2.15% |
| Operating Margin | 2.13% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -6.10% |
Stocks & Indices
Wacker Chemie AG has the following listings and related stock indices.
Stock: FSX: WCH wb_incandescent
Stock: XETR: WCH wb_incandescent
Stock: OTC: WKCMF wb_incandescent