Carsten Mainitz
The native Rhineland-Palatinate has been a passionate market participant for more than 25 years. After studying business administration in Mannheim, he worked as a journalist, in equity sales and many years in equity research.
Most recently, he headed a Hamburg-based investment research company as a member of the board for 8 years.
He is particularly interested in international small and micro caps and empirical capital market research (behavioral finance).
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 21st, 2022 | 09:25 CET
Shell, Saturn Oil + Gas, Plug Power - Energy stocks in focus
Oil prices remain in bullish mode, reaching a new seven-year high. The latest increase was due to an explosion of a critical oil pipeline between Iraq and Turkey, through which up to 450,000 barrels of crude oil are transported daily. In general, the supply situation remains tight. OPEC expects a further increase in global oil demand. The primary beneficiaries of this supply shortage are oil producers; they were already able to post record results last year.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 20th, 2022 | 12:14 CET
Evotec, Defence Therapeutics, Formycon - Who will benefit from Omicron?
The Coronavirus has shown that without biotechnology and ongoing research, we are relatively defenseless against the whims of nature. What would have happened if novel technology had not been available to produce potent vaccines in a very short time? Would our intensive care units have been as crowded as they were in Italy at the beginning of the pandemic? Would hospital triage be the norm today? No one can say for sure, but history has shown how epidemics - such as the Spanish flu - have claimed many lives in the past.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 18th, 2022 | 13:07 CET
Ayurcann, Novavax, Covestro - The stragglers are coming!
Humanity continues to find itself in the clutches of the Corona pandemic, the infection figures are rising, and the demand from politicians for mandatory vaccination is becoming louder and louder. While BioNTech and Pfizer vaccines and Moderna have dominated to date, new vaccine manufacturers are entering the market in the next wave. The situation is similar in the cannabis industry. After a boom about 3 years ago, the market leaders have since lost up to 80% of their value. Legalization and the rise of Cannabis 3.0. will pave the way for new companies.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 17th, 2022 | 10:05 CET
Aspermont, SAP, Steinhoff - Unbridled growth
With focused growth and high investments in the cloud division, European software giant SAP wants to attack the US tech groups Oracle and Salesforce. The Walldorf-based Company has recognized the signs of the times; technological progress concerning a rapidly growing engineered and digital world is picking up speed. The Australian Company Aspermont, a formerly long-established publishing house, has already gone through the digital transformation. The next step is now to become a fintech group. The path has already been paved.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 14th, 2022 | 12:31 CET
Barrick Gold, Alerio Gold, First Majestic - Experts agree: 2022 will be the year of mining stocks
2021 was a consistently strange year. Corona surprised with more new variants, Olaf Scholz became German Chancellor and the prices for gold and silver, despite ever-rising inflation, developed downwards towards the end year. While in the past many investors have relied on cryptocurrencies as a hedge against inflation, perhaps the recent price capers of the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, could make investors rethink.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 13th, 2022 | 14:13 CET
dynaCERT, Plug Power, Nikola - Will hydrogen be the comeback of 2022?
Electromobility is an important building block for reducing CO2 emissions. However, batteries are not efficient enough due to their limited range and long charging times, especially in heavy-duty traffic. The most promising technology is hydrogen. However, after a veritable hype last year, many values experienced an abrupt crash after it became clear that the necessary infrastructure was not yet ready. But in 2022, the course could slowly be set, and hydrogen stocks could make the comeback of the year. We took a closer look at three promising candidates.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 12th, 2022 | 13:21 CET
Deutsche Lufthansa, Kleos Space, BYD - The picture is brightening up
Exploding infection figures, contact restrictions, and no prospect of improvement are some of the impressions one could get from the current news situation. In contrast, individual scientists are cautiously optimistic that the new variant could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic and the change to an endemic. In an endemic situation, people continue to become infected with the virus; however, by that time, most people's immune systems have already been exposed to the virus or are protected by vaccination, so there is no longer a burden on the health care system. A more normal life would thus be possible again, with significantly fewer restrictions.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 11th, 2022 | 13:13 CET
Deutsche Bank, CoinSmart, PayPal - New opportunities after the correction!
After bitcoin reached a new all-time high of around USD 69,000 in November, price targets of over USD 100,000 were already being passed around. But the reality looks different. In the wake of a sharp correction, the digital reserve currency is trading below USD 41,000. The altcoins have also been dragged down with it. Even if cryptocurrencies are not yet at the end of the current correction cycle, the ecosystem's development and infrastructure are still in their early stages. Thus, there are attractive countercyclical entry opportunities in this segment for selected securities, which should pay off in the long term.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 10th, 2022 | 13:14 CET
Nel ASA, CoinAnalyst, GameStop - Prepared for the future!
Technology stocks suffered from a painful correction in recent weeks. The announcement on the occasion of the publication of the FED minutes that interest rates would be raised faster than expected intensified the consolidation. As a result, stocks with disruptive business models fell, as did hydrogen stocks, which are promising in the long term due to the energy transition. The bulk of cryptocurrencies also lost by double digits. However, these sectors are more than promising in the long term and offer attractive entry opportunities at current levels.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on January 7th, 2022 | 11:36 CET
Deutsche Bank, Troilus Gold, Allianz - Interest rate hike and the consequences
The loose monetary policy could end sooner than thought, at least in the US. The Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Committee members noted that the inflation trend had been higher and stronger than forecast. This reads from the minutes of the Fed's mid-December meeting. As a result, faster rate hikes were warranted, it said. In the wake of expectations of a more restrictive monetary policy, financial stocks, in particular, are benefiting. The chances of further price gains are good.
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