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STOCKHOLDER RETURN
The form of the charts presented above is in accordance with requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Stockholders are
cautioned against drawing any conclusions from the data contained therein, as past results are not necessarily indicative of future performance.
These charts do not reflect the Company’s forecast of future financial performance.
The charts below illustrate the cumulative total return to Dow stockholders over certain periods of time. They depict a hypothetical $100 investment in
Dow common stock on December 31 of the first year of the charts, and show the value of that investment over time until December 31, 2011, with all
dividends reinvested in stock. Hypothetical investments of $100 in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Chemicals
Index are shown for comparison.
Five-Year Cumulative Total Return in $
December 31, Dow Chemical S&P 500 S&P 500 Chemicals
2006 100.00 100.00 100.00
2007 102.61 105.49 126.99
2008 41.87 66.47 75.95
2009 79.64 84.06 109.96
2010 100.51 96.74 134.08
2011 87.30 98.76 132.38
Ten-Year Cumulative Total Return in $
December 31, Dow Chemical S&P 500 S&P 500 Chemicals
2001 100.00 100.00 100.00
2002 91.81 77.91 100.66
2003 133.90 100.24 127.35
2004 164.43 111.14 152.20
2005 149.93 116.59 151.29
2006 141.77 134.99 176.77
2007 145.47 142.40 224.49
2008 59.36 89.72 134.25
2009 112.90 113.49 194.38
2010 142.49 130.59 237.01
2011 123.77 133.32 234.02
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