| 2006 | 2005 |
2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Number of shares outstanding as of December 31 | 432,150,000 | 406,040,000 | 385,775,000 | |||||||||||||
| Weighted number of shares outstanding | 410,871,602 | 389,756,350 | 365,930,584 | |||||||||||||
| Share price as of December 31 | | 154.76 | 127.94 | 97.60 | ||||||||||||
| High for the year | | 156.75 | 129.70 | 111.15 | ||||||||||||
| Low for the year | | 111.20 | 89.72 | 73.87 | ||||||||||||
| Share price performance in the year | % | 21.0 | 31.1 | (2.5) | ||||||||||||
| Market capitalization as of December 31 | bn | 66.9 | 51.9 | 35.9 | ||||||||||||
| Average number of shares traded per day | mn | 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.6 | ||||||||||||
| Beta-Factor1) | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||||||||||||
| Basic earnings per share | | 17.09 | 11.24 | 6.19 | ||||||||||||
| Price-earnings ratio | 9.1 | 11.4 | 15.8 | |||||||||||||
| Dividend per share | | 3.80 | 2.00 | 1.75 | ||||||||||||
| Dividend yield | % | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||||||||||||
| Return on equity after income taxes2) | % | 15.6 | 12.6 | 7.8 |