Here are 5 stocks that made a bang on the stock exchange “thanks” to Coronavirus

The second half of February and much of March was a shocking period for world stock exchanges. Never had Wall Street lost so much in such a short time. Yet, the losses compared to the beginning of the year have been almost entirely recovered, indeed the Nasdaq travels at + 10%. More than one wonders if we are not facing a financial bubble, that is to say a disconnect between equity and fundamental values. For some companies, however, the boom in the midst of a pandemic made sense, because as always happens during a crisis or a traumatic event, not everyone has a reason to cry, there always being those who have the opportunity to take advantage of it to do business.

Among the titles that have scored double-digit increases “thanks” to Coronavirus, we certainly find Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg’s creature has seen the number of users continue to grow, but above all the average time spent on social networks has increased. Hundreds of millions of people forced to stay home for the “lockdown” imposed by governments, they spent more time on the internet, looking for the contact of friends and relatives on social networks. A way to feel less alone, which has pushed social actions by 12% this year.

Following, we find Gilead Sciences. He won’t say anything to most people, yet just yesterday the European Medicines Agency issued the authorization to use remdesivir for the treatment of Covid-19. It is a drug that the American pharmaceutical company had previously tested against Ebola, but without success. He repeated the experiment with a group of Covid patients and this time the results were very promising.

In fact, it is the first drug to be marketed against this ongoing pandemic. Its shares registered a 15% rise.

Gilead’s dilemma: make money with Coronavirus or moderate prices?

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And Netflix goes up on the podium. It achieved growth of over 40%. You will wonder what the virus has to do with it. Well, subscriber growth was expected to be 8 million units in the first quarter, but it was almost 16 million, double that. Reason? Much more free time to watch a movie or watch an entire TV series and once again due to the substantially global quarantine effect.

Could Amazon be missing? Certainly not. And, in fact, Jeff Bezos also consolidated his personal wealth, thanks to the + 45% earned by the company’s shares, which in the first quarter of this year alone saw the worldwide turnover consolidate by 26.4% to 75.45 billion dollars. People have made many more online purchases, unable to physically go to stores.

Zoom’s triumph

Finally, Zoom. Here, the boom is all there: + 280%. A social platform unknown to most until a few months ago and which has become extremely popular among workers and students in Covid times. It allows you to participate without limits of users in online video and / or voice meetings, a bit like for years with Skype, simply making it even more comfortable. Now, it capitalizes on the $ 73 billion on the stock exchange and would contain up to 300 million daily users, a sharp increase from just 10 in early December.

Encouraging prospects? Except that in all likelihood the Covid-dependent boom has exhausted somewhat for all the aforementioned stocks, this does not also imply that growth on the stock exchange cannot continue. The pandemic has, perhaps structurally, upset the consumption habits of hundreds of millions of people around the world, accelerating the race for online shopping and telework. The future should be bright for companies like Zoom and Amazon, but it goes without saying that Gilead has also benefited from the impetus of these months, as Netflix consolidates its business on the paid content market.

Partially different speech for Facebook. The social network was already very popular many years before Covid and if anything it has seen its use in these months of forced isolation for many people. For the future, the pandemic will not decide the fate of Zuckerberg, who took advantage of the particular period to launch his marketplace platform called Shops.

Facebook and Zoom on with the Coronavirus emergency, here are the winners of the “lockdown”

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