The positive share price development of the second half of 2009 continued in the first quarter of 2010. On March 31, 2010, the Dräger share price was considerably up on the DAX (+2 percent) and the TecDAX (–2 percent) with a plus of around 65 percent since the beginning of the year.
The Dräger share started the first trading day of the year at EUR 31.35. This was also the lowest price in the first three months of 2010. Contrary to the international stock markets, which launched weakly into 2010, the Dräger share showed a positive development straight from the beginning. On February 18, 2010 – the date of publication of the ad hoc report on the preliminary figures for 2009 – the share price was already at EUR 44.82, while the stock markets tended to stagnate in February and March. On March 4, 2010, the Dräger share reached its highest price in the first three months at EUR 54.40 and afterwards leveled out between EUR 50 and EUR 52. The share cost EUR 50.83 on the day of the annual accounts press conference, March 17, 2010, and then closed the first quarter at EUR 51.60 on March 31, 2010.