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Extensive Investor Relations activities. As in the prior years,
the Investor Relations department provided timely information on
the Group to analysts, institutional investors, rating agencies
and private shareholders.
Our communication activities for institutional investors and
analysts included roadshows in the major financial centers of
Europe, North America and Asia, as well as a large number
of one-on-one meetings in Stuttgart and Auburn Hills. We carried
out presentations of the Group at the international motor
shows in Detroit, Paris and Geneva. On January 24, 2006, we
held a conference call, simultaneously transmitted on the Internet,
to inform the capital market about our new management model,
which is designed to improve the Group’s competitiveness and to
allow further profitable growth. We also arranged regular
conference calls with live Internet transmission to provide infor-
mation on our quarterly results and important changes at the
Group. The key areas of capital-market communication included the
Group’s current development, the outlook for full-year 2006
(which was adjusted in the fall as a result of new information on
profitability at the Chrysler Group) and the strategic orientation
of the Group.
In order to provide information on specific divisions, we carried
out two all-day information events for analysts and investors: the
Mercedes Car Group Division Day and the Truck Group Division
Day. The top management of these two divisions presented their
strategic and operational goals and activities and explained them
in detailed discussions. The two events were transmitted live
on the Internet in order to make the information available to all
shareholders simultaneously. The Mercedes Car Group Division
Day began with a statement by the Chairman of the Board of
Management on the topical issue of the Group’s earnings
trend following the adjustment of our profit guidance for the
Chrysler Group. This timely and very open style of communi-
cation was given a very positive reception by the capital market.
At the Truck Group Division Day, the Truck Group presented
itself for the first time with details of its long-term return goals,
products, innovations and technologies. These Investor
Relations events were rounded off with presentations and
test drives of new models from the product ranges of the
Mercedes Car Group and the Truck Group.
2,673
1,028.2
48.12
1,3
6.47%
2.10%
BBB
Baa1
BBB+
A(low)
+1
+1
+10
-13
06/05
2,647
1,018.2
43.9
1.5
7.00%
2.20%
BBB
A3
BBB+
A(low)
End of
2005
Capital stock (in millions of €)
Number of shares (in millions)
Market capitalization (in billions of €)
Number of shareholders (in millions)
Weightings in share indices
DAX 30
Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50
Long-term credit ratings
Standard & Poor’s
Moody’s
Fitch
Dominion Bond
End of
2006
Statistics
3.16
3.14
1.50
33.22
46.801
50.091
37.011
+13
+12
0
-7
+8
+10
+23
06/05
2.80
2.80
1.50
35.80
43.141
45.651
30.201
2005
Net income (basic)
Net income (diluted)
Dividend
Stockholders’ equity (Dec. 31)
Share price: year-end
high
low
1 Frankfurt Stock Exchange
2006
Statistics per share
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