Growth is a key investment criteria for most investors out there. Resilience, defined as through-the-cycle performance, is also on the top of the industry's list. But what about resilience to pandemics or sudden global supply chain shocks? We are pretty sure this was not a key consideration for many investors until 2020...
In our proprietary analysis covering >10,000 assets we have analysed exactly this. We have mapped the longer-term resilience vs. the COVID-induced 1 year (shock) effect for assets belonging to different sub-sectors as well as Gain.pro's proprietary industry deep-dives.
What we can see from the analysis is that most segments have had a moderate negative impact due to e.g. closed sites (technical services) or shortage in components (Medtech) and that a smaller group of segments have performed in line with long-term performance (Pharmaceuticals). However, on the extreme end we can see two groups with a very significant impact form pandemic effects, e.g. a negative impact in Leisure of c. -20% and a growth acceleration of c. +20% in flash sales and payment services.
We expect the same trends to continue throughout the first half of 2022 and only a gradual recovery for the heavily impacted segments with a return to "normal" in the second half of the year. However, some segments are changed for good and players might have to adjust their business models to remain relevant.
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