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 February 24th, 2022 | 11:30 CET
SYNLAB, XPhyto, Novavax - How long will the Corona boom last?
Corona has been turning the world upside down for two years. Although the stock markets have largely recovered from their crash in February and March 2020 and are clearly up again, some stocks are still doing much better, thanks to Corona. For example, shares of companies involved in developing and producing Corona vaccines, medicines, or testing methods have significantly outperformed the indices. But how sustainable is this boom?
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 22nd, 2022 | 10:49 CET
Bayer, Memiontec, Dr. Hönle - Serious threat!
Water is the basis of all life. We use water for our nutrition, daily hygiene and leisure activities. Water is also a crucial economic factor as an energy source, transport medium and raw material. But access to clean drinking water is not a matter of course; even today, 1 billion people are denied it. According to various experts, this situation will soon deteriorate dramatically. By 2025, 3 billion people could be living in countries with severe water shortages. Therefore, water scarcity is an urgent issue for the future of humanity.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 21st, 2022 | 14:49 CET
E.ON, Nevada Copper, Nordex - The only way it works
In the course of the energy transition, renewable energies such as hydroelectric and solar power, wind energy, geothermal energy and renewable raw materials are replacing fossil fuels. By 2050, renewable energy sources are to cover around 60% of national consumption. Another key challenge is to increase energy efficiency. New storage concepts and intelligent energy networks play a central role here. Not to be forgotten are the essential raw materials such as copper, from whose expected price increases commodity producers can profit.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 18th, 2022 | 12:47 CET
Commerzbank, wallstreet:online, Bayer - Positive signals!
The US Federal Reserve is on the verge of ending its ultra-loose monetary policy and is signaling interest rate hikes soon in order to get a grip on high inflation, which is currently far above the target value of 2%. In addition, the monetary watchdogs cite future inflation risks and the robust labor market as reasons for the rising interest rates. As a result, shares of banks and financial services providers are benefiting. The successful restructuring measures, which are now generating billions in profits for the banks, also boost share prices.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 17th, 2022 | 13:22 CET
Allkem, Kodiak Copper, BHP - Profiteers of high commodity prices!
The growth of electromobility will cause the prices of copper, lithium and other battery metals and critical raw materials to rise in the long term. Supply and demand are the determining influencing factors. Whether interest rates rise or not, whether stock markets wobble or not, the price trend will continue. Profiteers are (prospective) commodity producers.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 15th, 2022 | 13:35 CET
Almonty Industries, Mercedes-Benz Group, Varta - Highs and lows, what to do?
Without raw materials, life in many sectors of the economy comes to a standstill. The economically most important raw materials with a high supply risk are referred to as critical raw materials. The European Commission counts 30 elements in this group, including tungsten and lithium. Demand rising sharply above supply has caused prices to increase significantly for some time. Raw material producers are on the winning side. Buyers have to do their homework.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 15th, 2022 | 11:28 CET
BYD, Yorkton Ventures, Standard Lithium - Winners of the mobility revolution!
The shift from fossil fuels to battery-powered vehicles is underway, and policymakers are keeping up the pressure with targets to reduce emissions from cars by at least 55% and trucks by 30% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Demand for New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) is growing tremendously. In addition to Tesla, Chinese manufacturers such as BYD, XPeng and NIO were also able to report double-digit growth rates in the past fiscal year. The prerequisite for this trend is the procurement of the existential raw material lithium. But this is becoming increasingly scarce.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 11th, 2022 | 11:01 CET
Deutsche Bank, Hong Lai Huat, Heidelberger Druck - Things are stabilizing!
After a sharp correction, the stabilization of the stock markets - due to concerns about faster than expected interest rate increases - has been successful. The DAX was able, at least temporarily, to fend off a fall below the psychologically important 15,000 point mark. The German benchmark index is driven by banks and financial stocks, which have outperformed for weeks. There are also outliers from the second row, which could surprise positively due to the presented figures.
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 10th, 2022 | 13:40 CET
Alerio Gold, Aixtron, Siltronic - The signs point to growth!
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has for some time begun to scale back bond purchases massively and will raise the key interest rate at its next meeting in March. Semiconductor manufacturers have indicated that the chip shortage will level off over the course of the year. How will these developments affect commodity prices and cryptocurrencies?
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Commented by Carsten Mainitz on February 9th, 2022 | 14:12 CET
Nel ASA, First Hydrogen, Nordex - Hydrogen with tailwind, storm at Nordex!
Germany's path to climate neutrality is mapped out in the Climate Protection Act. With a tightening, the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 is currently being targeted. This goal is to be achieved with the help of renewable energies such as wind power and photovoltaics. The transport sector poses a particular challenge. Here, CO2 emissions have risen over the past two decades despite the development of more efficient vehicles. While batteries are likely to prevail in passenger cars, hydrogen and fuel cell technology is considered the favorite in transportation due to higher ranges and shorter refueling times.
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