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Company snapshot — Wacker Chemie AG

WCH.DE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Wacker Chemie makes specialty chemicals across four segments: silicones, polymers, biosolutions and polysilicon. It supplies silicone fluids, resins and emulsions, polymer binders and dispersions, pharmaceutical and food ingredients through biosolutions, and hyperpure polysilicon used in wafer production. Its customers span automotive, construction, chemical, semiconductor, consumer, medical, pharmaceutical and photovoltaic industries. It is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and remains linked to its founding family through majority ownership.
Where it sits in the stack
Wacker Chemie holds no seat in our index. It sits within the materials and specialty chemicals sleeve of our universe, where its hyperpure polysilicon supplies the wafer feedstock that precedes any chip design, fabrication or test step.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not assigned Wacker Chemie a peer group. The market sometimes places it alongside other polysilicon producers, such as Hemlock Semiconductor, when comparing feedstock suppliers to the solar and semiconductor industries.
Why Closelook tracks it
Wacker Chemie carries no seat in our index and no Closelook score; the diary has not built coverage on it beyond noting its place in the materials sleeve.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether demand for solar-grade and semiconductor-grade polysilicon shifts enough to change the balance across Wacker's four segments.

Wacker Chemie AG (WCH.DE) trades on the XETRA exchange in Germany.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for WCH.DE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Chemicals · Germany · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Chemicals · Germany

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against WCH.DE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.16%, annual · last 1.00 EUR on 2026-05-08

Dividends and capital return

What WCH.DE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.00 EUR per share · a 1.16% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year −60.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.50 EUR per share
  • Last distribution 1.00 EUR per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-05-08
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.50 EUR (partial) · 2026: 1.00 EUR to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-05-08

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Wacker Chemie AG (WCH.DE)?

Wacker Chemie AG trades as WCH.DE on the XETRA exchange (Germany) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is WCH.DE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Wacker Chemie AG is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does WCH.DE trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -5.4% vs the 50-day and +1.3% vs the 200-day average, 18.7% below the 52-week high and +39.5% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Wacker Chemie AG do?

Wacker Chemie makes specialty chemicals across four segments: silicones, polymers, biosolutions and polysilicon. It supplies silicone fluids, resins and emulsions, polymer binders and dispersions, pharmaceutical and food ingredients through biosolutions, and hyperpure polysilicon used in wafer production. Its customers span automotive, construction, chemical, semiconductor, consumer, medical, pharmaceutical and photovoltaic industries. Closelook has not assigned Wacker Chemie a peer group. The market sometimes places it alongside other polysilicon producers, such as Hemlock Semiconductor, when comparing feedstock suppliers to the solar and semiconductor industries.

Where does Wacker Chemie AG sit in the AI build-out?

Wacker Chemie holds no seat in our index. It sits within the materials and specialty chemicals sleeve of our universe, where its hyperpure polysilicon supplies the wafer feedstock that precedes any chip design, fabrication or test step. Wacker Chemie carries no seat in our index and no Closelook score; the diary has not built coverage on it beyond noting its place in the materials sleeve.

Does Wacker Chemie AG pay a dividend?

Wacker Chemie AG has paid 1.00 EUR per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 1.16% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.00 EUR on 2026-05-08. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for WCH.DE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Chemicals. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.