Healthcare industry: The big winner of the crisis?

Shares have plummeted by 30 percent in Germany in recent weeks. However, there is also a counter-trend occuring. Investors are increasingly betting on shares of companies from the healthcare sector.

In general, the healthcare industry is more crisis-proof than other industries. Both during the dotcom bubble in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008/2009, the share prices of healthcare companies fell less sharply than those of the market as a whole. In the current crisis, some healthcare companies are being given a key role in limiting or even solving the crisis. The healthcare sector is therefore in the spotlight of the general public as never before.

A quick look at the current German stock market already reveals the winners.  Only five percent of companies in Germany were able to at least maintain their share value. The main winners are the healthcare companies Aladdin Healthcare, Heidelberg Pharma and Nanorepro. In the following, we will show how likely it is that companies in the healthcare sector will be successfull sustainably in the stock market. This is because there are certainly differences among the current winners.