The annual reports are here. Now it’s time to settle the accounts: How did the Winterthur companies get through the Corona year? A look around from the perspective of a fictitious retail investor.
Posted today at 5:30 am—
–Flying high: Winterthur shares really took off despite Corona. That of Sulzer (in the foreground the headquarters in the high-rise) by 80 percent.
Photo: Madeleine Schoder
We live in a time of negative interest rates. If you want to increase the money you have saved, you must not leave it in your bank account. So late in March, after all the big companies have presented their annual figures, we invite you to a local patriotic thought experiment: How would Mr or Mrs small investors have done if they had bet on shares from Winterthur a year ago?
Four shares, stake of 1,000 francs
The selection is not too big. Because many of the city’s largest employers will disappear from the start. Four belong to the public sector, such as the city administration, the cantonal hospital, the ZHAW and the integrated psychiatry IPW. The health insurance company Swica is an association that does not list the sensor manufacturer Kistler on the stock exchange.
