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Shareholder Structure and Annual General Meeting

Shareholder Structure

The chart shows the company’s shareholdings based on the data it collects itself and/or based on the voting rights pursuant to Sections 33 and 34 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) as notified by the shareholders in relation to the current share capital. It is important to note that the number of voting rights most recently reported may have changed in the meantime, without any requirement to notify the company being triggered, within the range of the relevant threshold values.

Major Shareholders (as of December 31, 2021)

Based on the German stock exchange’s definition of free float, only the interest held by Norges Bank (Ministry of Finance on behalf of Norway) does not count towards the free float. This means that 88.9% of Vonovia’s shares were in free float on December 31, 2021. The underlying voting rights notifications and corresponding financial instruments reported by shareholders or other instruments pursuant to Sections 38 and 39 WpHG can be found online.

In line with Vonovia’s long-term strategic focus, the majority of its investors also have a long-term focus. The company’s investors include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international asset managers in particular. We determine/update the shareholder structure once a quarter. By the end of 2021, we had identified approximately 93% of our shareholder base. Institutional investors account for 96% of our shareholders and private investors for around 4%. The breakdown of the company’s shareholders by region at the end of 2021 is roughly as follows:

Regional Distribution of Institutional Investors of Vonovia SE

Annual General Meeting 2021

Vonovia conducted its second virtual Annual General Meeting on April 16, 2021. Given the health-related risks and official requirements imposed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it was impossible to hold an Annual General Meeting allowing participants to be physically present, as was already the case in 2020. The Annual General Meeting was chaired by Jürgen Fitschen, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vonovia SE.

Together with Rolf Buch, CEO of Vonovia SE, he spoke to the company’s shareholders from a studio set up at the corporate headquarters in Bochum. The Annual General Meeting, which also featured sign language interpretation, was streamed live in the Investor Portal on the Investor Relations website.

Shareholders had submitted more than 800 questions for the general debate electronically in advance. Their voting rights could be exercised before and during the Annual General Meeting electronically, per postal vote or by authorizing the company’s proxies.

With more than 800 participants representing 77% of the share capital present at the same time, all resolution proposals were approved with a large majority. The dividend proposed to the company’s shareholders for the 2020 fiscal year also found broad support among Vonovia’s shareholders. For the fifth year in a row, shareholders were again able to choose either a conventional cash dividend or payment in the form of shares. At 49.18%, around half of shareholders holding shares carrying dividend rights opted for payment in the form of shares.

Since 2018, the investor portal has given our shareholders the option to conveniently attend to all formalities relating to registering for and voting at the Annual General Meeting online.