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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - In times of crisis there is usually brisk trading in the financial markets.
Deutsche Börse also benefited from this for much of the past year.
The Dax group is likely to have redeemed and earned more in 2020 than ever before.
On this Wednesday (February 10th), after the stock market closes in the evening, the Frankfurt market operator publishes its 2020 balance sheet, and the day after (February 11th) CEO Theodor Weimer and CFO Gregor Pottmeyer answer questions from journalists.
Analysts expect strong growth.
On average, the experts expect net sales to rise by around eight percent year-on-year to around 3.2 billion euros.
The profit should therefore have increased by ten percent to around 1.1 billion euros.
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Adjusted for special effects such as expenses for takeovers and corporate restructuring, a surplus of a little more than 1.2 billion is expected.
That would also be an increase of around ten percent over the previous year.
The shareholders should benefit from this with a dividend of EUR 3.13 increased by 23 cents.
That would all be record values.
In addition to brisk trading on the markets as a result of the crisis, the stock exchange also benefited from takeovers in recent years.
The CEO Weimer, who has been in office since the beginning of 2018, wants to make Deutsche Börse - which is already quite broadly positioned compared to its competitors - even more independent of the strong fluctuations in these markets with acquisitions, especially outside the equity business or the associated derivatives sector.
Finding suitable destinations is not easy as competition among bidders is fierce and prices are high.
Last year, Weimer found what it was looking for in autumn: Deutsche Börse snatched 80 percent of the shares in US proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) in a multi-billion dollar acquisition.
ISS provides institutional investors with data and corporate governance services.
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With the results expected by experts, the stock exchange would meet Weimer's goals.
For the past year, it had set the goal of increasing net sales by at least five percent from its own resources and achieving a profit of around 1.20 billion euros adjusted for special effects.
Deutsche Börse had already achieved a record profit in 2019 as a whole.
The net proceeds climbed to around 2.94 billion euros, the bottom line being a profit of just over one billion euros.
Adjusted for one-off effects, the surplus at the time was a good 1.1 billion euros.
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