Lime green: GF daily closing (CHF) / Dark green: SPI daily closing – rebasedThe market capitalization stood at CHF 2 573 million on 31 December 2013. Earnings per share is at CHF 34 (previous year: CHF 32).
At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, the Board of Directors will propose a profit distribution in the form of a par value reduction of CHF 9 and as a dividend of CHF 7 out of reserves from capital contributions per registered share.
Seven disclosure notifications were published in the year under review, of which one relate to BDS (Behr Deflandre & Snozzi) Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG, three to the BlackRock Group, held indirectly by BlackRock Inc (USA), one to LSV Asset Management, Chicago (USA) and two to the Norges Bank (the Central Bank of Norway), Oslo (Norway).
As at 31 December 2013, two shareholders had voting rights in excess of 5%: Norges Bank (the Central Bank of Norway), Oslo (Norway) and LSV Asset Management, Chicago (USA). No shareholders or shareholder groups had voting rights between 3% and 5%.
Disclosure notifications pertaining to shareholdings in Georg Fischer
Ltd that were filed with Georg Fischer Ltd and the SIX Swiss Exchange
are published on the latter’s electronic publication platform.
The notifications can be accessed via the following weblink to the
database search page of the disclosure office:
| Number of shares | Number of shareholders | Number of shares % |
| 1 – 100 | 10 314 | 8.2 |
| 101 – 1 000 | 1 745 | 11.0 |
| 1 001 – 10 000 | 189 | 10.2 |
| 10 001 – 100 000 | 18 | 12.9 |
| › 100 000 | 3 | 19.3 |
| Shares not registered in share register | – | 38.4 |
| Total | 12 269 | 100.0 |
