DJ Commerzbank completes share buyback of around EUR1bn
Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (CZB) Commerzbank completes share buyback of around EUR1bn 18-Dec-2025 / 09:24 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. =---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 December 2025
Commerzbank completes share buyback of around EUR1bn
-- A total of 30,972,690 shares repurchased (2.75% of share capital) -- CEO Bettina Orlopp: "The completion of this share buyback underscores the strength of our 'Momentum' strategy and
is a significant step in the implementation of our capital return for the 2025 financial year."
Commerzbank AG successfully completed its fifth share buyback on Wednesday, 17 December 2025. With a volume of around EUR1bn, it was the largest buyback in the history of the Bank. Commerzbank started the buyback on 25 September 2025, and has since repurchased a total of 30,972,690 of its own shares (ISIN DE000CBK1001) at an average price of around EUR32.28 per share. This corresponds to a share of 2.75% of the Bank's share capital.
"The completion of this share buyback underscores the strength of our 'Momentum' strategy and is a significant step in the implementation of our capital return for the 2025 financial year," said Bettina Orlopp, CEO of Commerzbank. "As a result of the increased profitability in our strong, customer-oriented business model, we plan to return 100% of the net result before restructuring expenses and after deduction of AT 1 coupon payments."
The capital return for the 2025 financial year is planned to consist of share buybacks as well as a dividend payment.
"Our clear and attractive capital return policy will be reliably continued in the years to come," said CFO Carsten Schmitt. "Our goal remains to sustainably create value for our shareholders."
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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. Commerzbank transacts approximately 30% of Germany's foreign trade financing. 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 EUR400bn 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 almost 5.9 million private and corporate customers, predominantly in Poland, as well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Disclaimer
This release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. In this release, these statements concern inter alia the expected future business of Commerzbank, efficiency gains and expected synergies, expected growth prospects and other opportunities for an increase in value of Commerzbank as well as expected future financial results, restructuring costs and other financial developments and information. These forward-looking statements are based on the management's current plans, expectations, estimates and projections. They are subject to a number of assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from any future results and developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, amongst others, the conditions in the financial markets in Germany, in Europe, in the USA and other regions from which Commerzbank derives a substantial portion of its revenues and in which Commerzbank holds a substantial portion of its assets, the development of asset prices and market volatility, especially due to the ongoing European debt crisis, potential defaults of borrowers or trading counterparties, the implementation of its strategic initiatives to improve its business model, the reliability of its risk management policies, procedures and methods, risks arising as a result of regulatory change and other risks. Forward-looking statements therefore speak only as of the date they are made. Commerzbank has no obligation to update or release any revisions to the forward-looking statements contained in this release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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