Trading volume and statistics

Saab’s market capitalization was SEK 14.1 billion at year-end 2007, which corresponds to 0.4 percent of the total capitalization of the companies listed on the OMX Stockholm.

The price of the Series B share fell during the year by 38 percent, compared with an decrease of 6 percent for the OMX index. The total return on Saab’s Series B share – i.e. the dividend plus appreciation in the share price – has been 56 percent over the last five years.

In 2007 a total of 59,857,168 Series B shares were traded, corresponding to 109 percent of the shares available. The share price reached a high of SEK 216.50 on January 22 and 23 and a low of SEK 116.50 on November 22.

Beta shows how much a share fluctuates in relation to the market as a whole. A low beta (<1) indicates a low risk in relation to other stocks in the market. A high beta (>1) means a higher risk. According to the SIX' calculations, the beta for Saab’s Series B share was 1.0, indicating it fluctuated by an average as the market average measured according to the Affärsvärlden General Index over a 48-month period. Saab’s stock covariance was 0.34, which means that 34 percent of the share’s price performance is due to the market’s development as a whole.