ABB Annual Report 2012 PDF - ABB Group Annual Report 2012

Investor informationABB Ltd share price trendduring 2012During 2012, the price of ABB Ltd shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange increased 6 percent, while the Swiss PerformanceIndex increased 18 percent. The price of ABB Ltd shares on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm increased 4 percent,compared to the OMX 30 Index, which increased 12 percent. The price of ABB Ltd American Depositary Shares tradedon the New York Stock Exchange increased 10 percent compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Index, which increasedby 7 percent.Source: BloombergShare price(data based on closing prices)SIX Swiss Exchange(CHF)NASDAQ OMXStockholm(SEK)New YorkStock Exchange(US$)High 20.12 146.70 21.91Low 14.83 109.00 15.42Year-end 18.75 134.10 20.79Average daily traded number of shares, in million 6.38 1.67 2.60Source: BloombergMarket capitalizationShareholder structureMajor shareholdersDividend proposalOn December 31, 2012, ABB Ltd’s market capitalization based on outstanding shares (total number of outstandingshares: 2,295,949,275) was approximately CHF 43 billion ($47.7billion, SEK 307.9 billion).As of December 31, 2012, the total number of shareholders directly registered with ABB Ltd was approximately 188,000.In addition, another 243,000 shareholders hold shares indirectly through nominees. In total, ABB has approximately431,000 shareholders.As of December 31, 2012, Investor AB, Stockholm, Sweden, owned 182,030,142 shares of ABB Ltd, corresponding to7.9 percent of ABB’s total share capital and voting rights as registered in the Commercial Register on December 31,2012. As of July 25, 2011, BlackRock, Inc., New York, U.S., owned 69,702,100 shares of ABB Ltd, corresponding to3.0 percent of ABB’s total share capital and voting rights as registered in the Commercial Register on December 31,2012. To the best of ABB’s knowledge, no other shareholder held 3 percent or more of ABB’s total share capital andvoting rights as of December 31, 2012.ABB’s Board of Directors has proposed a dividend for 2012 of CHF 0.68 per share, compared to CHF 0.65 per sharein the prior year. Translated into U.S. dollars using year-end 2012 exchange rate, the dividend corresponds to approximately63 percent of ABB’s 2012 net income. The proposal is in line with the Company’s dividend policy to pay asteadily rising, sustainable annual dividend over time. As it did in 2012, the Board proposes that the dividend be paidfrom ABB Ltd’s capital contribution reserve, a form of payment that would be exempt from Swiss withholding tax.If approved by shareholders at the company’s Annual General Meeting on April 25, 2013, the ex-dividend date wouldbe April 29, 2013, for shares traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange and NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and April 30, 2013,for American Depositary Shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The respective dividend payout dateswould be May 3, 2013 in Switzerland, May 7, 2013 in Sweden, and May 10, 2013 in the United States.152 Financial review | ABB Annual Report 2012