Basf Se (ETR:BAS - Get Free Report) crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of €46.35 ($50.38) and traded as high as €46.92 ($51.00). Basf shares last traded at €46.04 ($50.04), with a volume of 1,520,695 shares trading hands.

The firm has a market cap of $41.21 billion, a PE ratio of -920.70, a PEG ratio of 0.25 and a beta of 1.21. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of €45.40 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of €46.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 69.16, a quick ratio of 1.02 and a current ratio of 1.70.

BASF SE operates as a chemical company worldwide. It operates through six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural Solutions. The Chemicals segment provides petrochemicals and intermediates. The Materials segment offers advanced materials and their precursors for applications and systems comprising isocyanates, polyamides, and inorganic basic products, as well as specialties for plastics and plastics processing industries.

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