Analysis of Deutsche Börse

Company: Deutsche Börse

Business: A German company that are one of the largest exchange companies in the world. They have five business areas: Cash Market, Derivative Market, Market Data + Services, Banking Settlement and Custody and finally Information technology.

Active: They are active in over 110 countries and as a bad example of that they are running the worlds biggest derivative market in the US which makes me go O.K. (and that is not a good ok!)

P/E: 16.9

Analysis of Südzucker

Company: Südzucker

Business: A German agricultural (mainly sugar) company. They are divided into four segments: Sugar (Südzucker & Agrana), Special products segment (Bene, Freiberger etc.), CropEnergies segment and Fruit segment (Agrana and Austria juice). For the full list please take a look here.

Active: They are mainly active in Europe. Some production in China and they are present also in the US but still... Europe is their base which is also no wonder since the German sugar beet farmers own 52% of the company.

P/E: 7.4

Analysis of Daimler

Company: Daimler

Business: This German automobile company are active in several segments: Cars (the most well known is Mercedes-Benz, Smart), Trucks (MB, Freightliner, Fuso etc.), Vans (MB and Freightliner), Buses (MB and Setra) and then they have financial services. to see all the brands please look here. They also have the car rental service called Car2Go which is mainly built up of Smarts to decrease fuel consumption and to make parking easier for their customers that maybe not drive on a regular basis.

Active: All over the world. They are distributing their cars, trucks, buses etc. in over 200 countries.

P/E: 10.1

Analysis of Continental

Company: Continental

Business: A German automotive supplier that are divided into two groups: The Automotive group and the Rubber group. Under these two groups there are five divisions: Chassis and safety, Powertrain, Interior, Tires and ContiTech. These five divisions produce brake systems, systems and components for powertrains and chassis, instrumentation, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers among other things.

Active: They are currently active in 46 countries world wide with their almost 170,000 employees.

P/E: 13.3

Summary of September 2013

The summary for September is, stock portfolio wise, not much better then what it was in August 2013. The month was privately less tough which was due to that I went back to a more normal life even though I am still on half salary but now I have adjusted fully.
I managed to transfer a crazy amount of money to my stock deposit (1739 €) which can be read about here. So I did at least manage to pay myself first this time!