German stocks - Factors to watch on April 19

(Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday:

SAP

Q1 results. The business software group is expected to report its quarterly operating profit, excluding special items, rose 16 percent to 968 million euros ($1.3 billion). Poll:

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DEUTSCHE BANK

Germany's financial regulator has doubts about Deutsche Bank's internal probe into its role in a global interest rate rigging scandal and will step up its own investigations into the bank, two sources familiar with the matter said.

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ENBW

German utility Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg (EnBW) said state prosecutors and tax fraud investigators from Mannheim searched the company's offices on Thursday.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS

COMMERZBANK - no dividend proposed

TRADING EX-DIVIDEND

RWE, div of 2.00 eur/shr

BEIERSDORF, div of 0.70 eur/shr

BILFINGER BERGER, div of 3.00 eur/shr

GEA GROUP, div of 0.55 eur/shr

GERRESHEIMER, div of 0.65 eur/shr

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Private equity group CVC is buying the stake in German energy-metering firm Ista it does not already own in what will be Germany's largest private equity deal in five years.

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OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS

Dow Jones -0.6 pct, S&P 500 -0.7 pct, Nasdaq -1.2 pct at Thursday's close.

Nikkei +0.6 pct at 0454 GMT.

GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA

German March producer prices due at 0600 GMT. Seen unchanged m/m, +0.7 pct y/y.

EUROPEAN FACTORS TO WATCH

DIARIES

REUTERS TOP NEWS (Christiaan Hetzner and Christoph Steitz)

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