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The Vienna Stock exchange – the <strong>BWT</strong> share<br />

<strong>BWT</strong><br />

ATX (scaled)<br />

January 99 March 99 May 99 July 99 Sept. 99 Nov. 99 January 00 March 00<br />

The Vienna stock exchange showed<br />

a less pronounced development<br />

compared with most international<br />

stock exchanges. The ATX<br />

(Index of Austrian continuously traded<br />

shares) improved by 6.9%<br />

during the year. Compared with<br />

this, developments at important<br />

international stock exchanges<br />

were significantly higher (eg. DAX<br />

+39.1%, Dow Jones Industrial<br />

+25.2%, Nikkei +36.8%).<br />

<strong>BWT</strong> AG has been quoted on the<br />

Austrian stock exchange since<br />

– 26 –<br />

May 1992. <strong>BWT</strong> shares are weighted<br />

at 1% in the main index ATX.<br />

In the context of weak exchange<br />

development, <strong>BWT</strong> shares came<br />

under pressure from the revision to<br />

earnings expectations for the<br />

fourth quarter, so that the share<br />

price at year-end, at € 133.5, was<br />

29% below that of the beginning<br />

of the year.<br />

During the first quarter of the year<br />

2000, however, and with unchanged<br />

stock market conditions, an<br />

increase in the share price by

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