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The 2G Energy share rose by 14.0 percent over the past week. However, the price development was anything but uniform: At the beginning of the week, the stock fell to a low of 30.80 euros, then turned sharply upwards and climbed with strong fluctuations to an intraday high of 38.75 euros on Friday. The price was supported by the preliminary figures for the past financial year presented during the week. The company increased its revenue by 6 percent to around 398 million euros, with new plant business growing by 11 percent to around 230 million euros. Despite burdens from the ERP introduction, the service business remained at a record level with around 169 million euros. 2G builds combined heat and power plants and other decentralized energy solutions, which in simple terms means systems for local electricity and heat generation. This business fits well into an environment in which security of supply, flexible electricity generation and additional capacities for new data centers are becoming more important.

For the share, however, the outlook was more decisive than the retrospective: The management confirmed the revenue forecast for 2026 of 440 million to 490 million euros and at the same time pointed out that it is involved in numerous projects around data centers in the US market. This point in particular moved further into focus in recent days because First Berlin wrote shortly afterwards that the management expects orders for several large data center projects in the near future. In addition, 2G has been actively working on this topic for some time. In May 2025, the company set up a separate unit for Data Center Solutions and in January 2026 introduced a new system in the USA with the DR aura 412 for fast, flexible power supply, which is explicitly also intended for data centers.

In the analyst studies, this topic has now once again been brought to the forefront. On Thursday, First Berlin upgraded the share from “Add” to “Buy” and raised the price target from 38 euros to 44 euros. SMC Research also raised the price target, from 40.50 euros to 42.00 euros, referring to the above-expectation figures as well as now significantly more concrete order prospects in the data center business. This gave the recovery in the share towards the end of the week a clear foundation from the analyst side as well. wikifolio traders also bought the stock for the most part.

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Tom Jakobi has had the share in his wikifolio Doppelanalyse (Chance) SL+ for around four months and is currently up by an average of 28 percent. Last week, the trader also used the strong price fluctuations for a small trade. On Wednesday he increased the position at 34.80 euros and sold the shares one day later at 37 euros. This enabled him to achieve a quick profit of 6.3 percent. With a combined strategy of micro and macro analyses, the trader has achieved a performance of 364 percent or 13 percent per year on average since November 2013. The maximum drawdown so far has been 45 percent.

Torsten Maus bought 2G Energy twice in recent days and increased the share of the stock in his wikifolio TREND-SURFER to just under seven percent. The small cap is currently the third-largest position in the portfolio. The trader pursues a market-phase-optimized trend-following approach in which stocks that show relative strength and mark new price highs with rising trading volume are usually bought. Because this approach works less well in a weak market environment, a higher cash share is held in such phases in order to limit losses as much as possible. The trader currently holds 23 percent cash and is also invested in two leveraged products that benefit from falling prices in the S&P 500 and the DAX. The model portfolio, which was launched at the beginning of 2019, has achieved a price increase of 108 percent with a very moderate maximum loss of 15 percent.

Planet Labs lost 9.0 percent in the past week, but when looking at the overall chart it was still able to hold at a very high level. The provider of satellite images and geodata-based analyses had presented strong quarterly figures on March 19 (the Thursday before last). The share reacted to this the following day with a price jump of 26 percent. Last week, a consolidation then set in, which after the steep rise beforehand looked like classic profit-taking. Despite the setback, the share was still trading well above the level before the earnings release.

In terms of content, the figures provided plenty of fuel for the rally. Planet Labs increased revenue in the fourth quarter of the past financial year by 41 percent to the record level of 86.8 million dollars, and for the full year it rose by 26 percent to 307.7 million dollars. Even more striking was the look at visibility: Remaining performance obligations rose by 106 percent to 852 million dollars, and the order backlog by 79 percent to more than 900 million dollars. For the current first quarter, the company expects revenue of 87 million to 91 million dollars, and for the full year 2027 it expects 415 million to 440 million dollars. This signals further growth, even though margins in the quarter were somewhat lower and an adjusted EBITDA loss is still expected for the first quarter.

Planet Labs operates a large fleet of Earth observation satellites and sells the data and analyses generated from them to authorities and companies. The group is currently benefiting from this in several areas at the same time: Defense and security applications remain in demand, while companies and governments are also expanding the use of such data in areas such as agriculture, infrastructure or mapping. After the figures, the market primarily focused on the combination of strong growth, better visibility and operational progress. This was also reflected in analyst reactions. Wedbush raised the price target directly after the figures from 30 dollars to 40 dollars. Morgan Stanley followed on Wednesday from 26 dollars to 35 dollars, and Deutsche Bank even raised its target from 17 dollars to 38 dollars towards the end of the week. This revaluation coincided in time with the jump to a record high. The setback last week therefore initially changed little about the also clearly improved chart situation.

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Many wikifolio traders therefore used the setback as an opportunity to enter the stock. A look at the trading sentiment shows a very clear buyer surplus at Planet Labs. David Hoch entered newly via his wikifolio Aktienauswahl nach Strategie last Tuesday and gave the share a weighting of 2.2 percent. The trader applies a quantitative strategy for stocks from Europe and the USA in which the price-earnings ratio, the equity ratio, earnings growth, the margin and the performance after approx. 6 months as well as after approx. 12 months of the share play a role. As his goal, he states that he wants above all to outperform the major stock indices (DAX, MDAX, SDAX, TecDAX, Euro Stoxx 50 and Dow Jones). So far this has worked well. Since autumn 2015, the price of the wikifolio has risen by 171 percent. The DAX achieved 123 percent in this period, the SDAX 95 percent, the Euro Stoxx 50 73 percent and the MDAX 43 percent.

Jörn Remus built up a larger position in several tranches at Planet Labs in the middle of last week for his wikifolio Nordstern. The stock is therefore the sixth-largest position in a portfolio that currently comprises 15 shares and in which the trader holds one third cash. With a focus on future stocks, growth stocks and megatrends, he has achieved a performance of 642 percent (20 percent p.a.) since mid-2015, whereby the maximum loss could be limited to under 30 percent.

Newmont achieved a gain of 7.0 percent in the past week, although the movement in between was anything but linear. The world’s largest gold producer was strongly dependent on the heavy fluctuations in the gold price. In recent weeks, gold and gold mining shares came under massive pressure because the war in the Middle East drove oil prices upwards, thereby strengthening inflation and interest rate fears and at the same time supporting the dollar. This is problematic for gold because the metal does not generate ongoing income and loses attractiveness in an environment of higher interest rates. Accordingly, the mining stocks also fell. In recent days, a counter-movement then set in as hopes of a de-escalation in the Iran conflict, falling oil prices and a recovering gold price at least temporarily stabilized the sector.

In recent days, it has been repeatedly pointed out that gold mining shares look like a cheap sector again after the setback. According to current calculations, the VanEck Gold Miners ETF currently only has a P/E ratio of 10.9, while the broad market is at around 20. Given the breadth of the recent sell-off, market observers are therefore talking about a classic contrarian entry opportunity. In line with this, the consensus price target of the banks at around 137 dollars is also quite clearly above the current prices of the share. Nevertheless, there were more frequent sales of the share on wikifolio.com during the price recovery in recent days.

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For Stephan Fritsch, Newmont is probably one of his favorite stocks. In any case, he has placed numerous trades here in recent years. In his wikifolio Fundamentales Wachstum, which was opened at the beginning of 2013, the stock has been continuously represented for about a year in varying position sizes. In recent weeks, however, the holdings had been sold down to a small remainder. For about a week now, the trader has once again been cautiously on the buying side. Fritsch sees himself as a strategic investor and is convinced that linking fundamental analysis with the specific growth prospects of companies in their markets produces the best investment results. He therefore tries to invest in undervalued companies that at the same time have above-average growth prospects. He currently has 28 such candidates in the portfolio and also holds 50 percent cash. With a maximum drawdown of 26 percent, he has been able to increase the value of the model portfolio by almost 200 percent since the beginning of 2013 (8.6 percent p.a.).

Microsoft fell by 6.0 percent last week. This continued a weakness that no longer looks like just a short-term setback. Since the beginning of the year, the loss now totals more than 26 percent, the price is currently at the lowest level since April 2025 and therefore only just above the low from the tariff shock at that time. The share has just recorded the worst six-month phase since 2009. For a company that was regarded as one of the biggest winners of the AI boom, this is a striking shift in market sentiment.

The triggers for the setbacks that gained momentum last week were new doubts about the monetization of the ongoing AI offensive. The focus is on Microsoft 365 Copilot. Although the analysts at UBS kept their buy recommendation, they reduced the price target quite significantly from 600 dollars to 510 dollars. As justification, the strategists referred to the fact that the narrative around Microsoft 365 and Copilot needs to improve again. Many investors are increasingly doubting whether the previous Copilot sales can meet the enormous level of expectations. In addition, there are question marks regarding Azure growth and the utilization of the massive investments in AI infrastructure. This is particularly sensitive for the market because the share has been strongly supported in recent quarters by the hope of additional AI revenues.

The nervousness was recently reinforced by another signal on the cost side. Specifically, it was about a hiring freeze in important areas, including the cloud division and North American sales teams. Microsoft did not officially comment on this, but in the market the report fitted the picture of a group that has to protect its margins despite high AI spending. On the sidelines, there was also a political-regulatory issue: In Europe, the debate about digital sovereignty and a lower dependence on US technology companies is becoming louder. This may also have been an additional burdening factor because the large US platforms in particular are therefore coming more under scrutiny. Microsoft sells software, cloud infrastructure and AI services to companies and authorities worldwide. Precisely for this reason, any discussion about weaker Copilot demand, expensive data center investments or possible alternatives to US platforms is currently hitting the stock particularly hard.

From the point of view of most analysts, the prospects for the share are still very good despite everything. According to analysts Microsoft has a price potential of more than 70 percent. However, some wikifolio traders have followed the motto “Never fight the trend” in recent days and have parted with the share. Alexander Görzen exited Microsoft completely in two tranches in his wikifolio Quality values and realized small losses of around 6 and 8 percent. With a predominantly short-term holding period, the trader prefers companies with forward-looking products or services whose shares are in a long-term upward trend. This strategy has earned him an increase in value of 548 percent (28 percent p.a.) since the summer of 2018, even though the past two years only resulted in a sideways movement.

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