- Total of 15,676,410 own shares repurchased (1.39% of share capital)
- CEO Bettina Orlopp: “The completion of the share buyback is an important milestone in our capital return for the 2025 financial year.”
Commerzbank AG successfully completed its sixth share buyback on Monday, 9 March 2026. Commerzbank had started the buyback with a volume of €524m on 12 February 2026. Since then, it has repurchased a total of 15,676,410 of its own shares (ISIN DE000CBK1001) at an average price of around €33.45 per share. This corresponds to 1.39% of the Bank’s share capital. Commerzbank plans to redeem the repurchased shares at a later stage.
“The completion of the share buyback is an important milestone in our capital return for the 2025 financial year,” said Bettina Orlopp, CEO of Commerzbank. “Together with the extensive share buyback, which we completed in December, we have already returned €1.5bn to our shareholders. Our proposal for a record dividend totalling around €1.2bn complements the highly attractive return package.”
The capital return of a total of €2.7bn for the 2025 financial year corresponds to 100% of Commerzbank’s net result before restructuring expenses and after deduction of Additional Tier 1 (AT 1) coupon payments. For the years 2022 to 2025, the Bank will have returned a total of around €5.8bn to its shareholders, provided that the Annual General Meeting this May approves the dividend proposal of the Board of Managing Directors and the Supervisory Board of €1.10 per share (2024: €0.65).
As part of its “Momentum” strategy, the Bank aims to further grow its net result in the coming years. Based on this, capital returns are intended to continue to increase steadily. For the current financial year, the Bank aims to return 100% of its net result to its shareholders after deduction of AT 1 coupon payments. Commerzbank plans a corresponding payout ratio of 100% for the following years 2027 and 2028 as well.
Further information on the now completed share buyback is available on Commerzbank’s website.
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About Commerzbank
With its two business segments – Corporate Clients and Private and Small-Business Customers –, Commerzbank, as a full-service bank, offers a comprehensive portfolio of financial services. It is the leading bank in the Corporate Clients Business in Germany and for the German Mittelstand and a strong partner for around 24,000 corporate client groups and accounts for approximately 30% of German foreign trade. The Bank is present internationally in more than 40 countries in the corporate clients’ business – wherever its Mittelstand clients, large corporates, and institutional clients need it. In addition, Commerzbank supports its international clients with a business relationship to Germany, Austria, or Switzerland and companies operating in selected future-oriented industries. With more than €400bn assets under management, Commerzbank is also one of the leading banks for private and small-business customers in Germany. Under the brand Commerzbank, it offers a wide range of products and services with an omni-channel approach: online and mobile, via phone or video in the remote advisory centre, and personally in its around 400 branches. Under the brand comdirect, it offers all core services as a digital primary bank 24/7 and, as a performance broker, solutions for saving, investing, and securities trading. Its Polish subsidiary mBank S.A. is an innovative digital bank that serves around 5.9 million private and corporate customers, predominantly in Poland, as well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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