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Consolidated financial statements at December 31, 2017 Notes to the consolidated financial statements

Earnings per share

Full year 2017

Full year 2016*

Basic

Diluted

Basic

Diluted

(in euros)

Profit before tax

5.10 3.85

5.04 3.81

4.48 3.12

4.43 3.09

EARNINGS PER SHARE

* 2016 figures were restated for discontinued operations disclosed in note 1. 21.3 – Dividends paid and proposed In 2017, the Group paid out the 2016 dividend of EUR2.04 per share (with a nominal value of EUR4), for a total of EUR1,133 million. In 2016, the Group paid out the 2015 dividend of EUR2.00 per share (with a nominal value of EUR4), for a total of EUR1,127 million. At the Shareholders’ Meeting of April 24, 2018, shareholders will be asked to approve a dividend of EUR2.20 per share (with a nominal value of EUR4) for fiscal year 2017. At December 31, 2017 Schneider-Electric SE had distributable reserves in an amount of EUR5,141 million (versus EUR6,231 million at the previous year-end), not including profit for the year.

21.4 – Share-based payments Current stock option and stock grant plans

The board of directors of Schneider Electric SE and later the management board have set up stock option and stock grant plans for senior executives and certain employees of the Group. The main features of these plans were as follows at December 31, 2017:

Stock option plans

Options cancelled because targets not met

Number of options initially granted

Starting date of exercise period

Expiration date

Price (in euros)

Date of the board meeting

Type of plan (1)

Plan no.

29 30 31 33

04/23/2007 12/19/2007 01/05/2009 12/21/2009

S S S S

04/23/2011 12/19/2011 01/05/2013 12/21/2013

04/22/2017 12/18/2017 01/04/2019 12/20/2019

45.55 42.00 23.78 34.62

166,300

-

1,889,852 1,358,000 1,652,686 5,066,838

887,952 133,760

-

TOTAL

1,021,712

(1) S = Options to subscribe new shares.

Rules governing the stock option plans are as follows: E to exercise the option, the grantee must generally be an employee or corporate officer of the Group. Vesting is also conditional on the achievement of performance criteria; E the options expire after six years; E the vesting period is three or four years in the United States and four years in the rest of the world.

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