Price development of the voestalpine share

In the business year 2009/10, the voestalpine share was able to significantly gain value despite an economic environment that was also challenging for the capital market so that its overall performance was significantly better than the indices that are relevant for price comparisons (see diagram).

Starting out as of March 31, 2009, with a low share price of EUR 9.85 due to the economic crisis, the price recovered substantially in the course of the year and by the end of the business year had tripled to EUR 29.95. However, as a consequence of the agitation on the capital markets, driven not least by the developments surrounding the European currency and the critical debt burden of some EU member states, subsequently, the voestalpine share—as was the case for stock exchanges overall—could not maintain this upward trend. The price development during the first two months of the business year 2010/11 was very volatile, and the voestalpine share, which had reached the EUR 30 mark as late as April 1, 2010, then began to trend downward. It made it more difficult that during this period of time—despite the basically positive economic prospects—the steel industry was being assessed much more critically because the capital markets were skeptical about its ability to pass on the exorbitant increases in raw materials costs to the market in the form of higher prices in the long term.

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Share capital		EUR 307,132,044.75 divided into 169,049,163 non-par value shares
		Shares in proprietary possession as of March 31, 2010: 658,285 shares
Class of shares		Ordinary bearer shares
Stock identification number		93750 (Vienna Stock Exchange)
ISIN		AT0000937503
Reuters		VOES.VI
Bloomberg		VOE AV