Porsche 2009 Annual Report Download - page 53

Shareholder composition
The share capital of Porsche SE amounts to
175 million euro, and is divided into 87.5 million ordi-
nary shares and 87.5 million listed preference shares,
with a pro rata share of capital stock of one euro per
no-par value share. Until the end of the previous fiscal
year 2008/09, the ordinary shares had been held in-
directly exclusively by members of the Porsche and
Piëch families. At the beginning of the reporting year,
in August 2009, Qatar Holding LLC acquired an indi-
rect shareholding of ten percent of the ordinary
shares in Porsche SE.
More than half of the preference shares are
held by institutional investors such as equity funds,
banks and insurance firms. Most of these are based
in the US and Canada, as well as the UK and Germany,
and in other European countries and Asia to a lesser
extent. Less than half of the Porsche preference
shares are in free float and are held by private inves-
tors mainly from Germany. The ordinary shareholders
of Porsche SE also own preference shares.
Indices
Porsche is represented on important interna-
tional indices such as “Morgan Stanley Capital Interna-
tional” index (MSCI), the “Dow Jones STOXX 600” and
the British “FTSE4Good” index on which stock corpo-
rations are listed whose corporate policy is guided by
ecological, ethical and social considerations.
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