Börse Express – Wirecard share 2020: Now it counts … and that multiple times!

The share of Wirecard (WKN: 747206) is starting another exciting year on the stock exchange these days. After the past year 2019 was rather turbulent, although operationally successful, many investors should hope that the next twelve months will be characterized by a little more stability.

Accordingly, a period should now begin for the innovative payment service provider that will be relevant for the further, long-term investment thesis behind the share. Let’s take a look below at where the DAX Group will probably have to deliver in the coming quarters.

1. The Causa Wirecard should be ended

The first important point that will be exciting in the coming weeks is still the topic of the “Financial Times”. The British daily finally launched another major attack last fall. Shortsellers and skeptics have responded to this call and have sent the share price on a downward slide.

A lot of time has passed since the fall and the advent of this new, but felt old chapter, which in reverse means that the hour of truth will also come closer. So far, the management of the payment service provider has given the prospect of being able to present the results of the special audit by KPMG by the end of the first quarter of the current stock exchange year. We may therefore be in the middle of this drastic event, so to speak. At least.

However, the uncertainty will continue until the test results are available. However, it is particularly the content that will be of interest to investors, analysts and the media. Accordingly, it is important to be able to deliver satisfactorily, transparently and also clearly in order to end this chapter once and for all.

2. It is important to break the threshold of one billion euros

A second area in which the DAX Group has to deliver in the next twelve months is of course further growth. The previous forecasts continue to show a strong growth course, whereby it is in particular the medium-term forecast up to the financial year 2025 that caused a sensation. However, it will be very exciting again in the coming quarters.

The management of the payment service provider has also announced an operating profit before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of at least one billion euros for the current financial year, Quite a goal that should be possible.

Nevertheless, a result of one billion euros should also be the minimum that investors are now expecting here. In view of the handling of the previously rather conservative forecasts, some might expect a stronger performance. In any case, it remains important that the payment service provider will be able to deliver operationally here in the coming months.

3. New products and prominent collaborations

Last but not least, the payment service provider will also have to deliver concrete steps at the respective operational and strategic level. The focus is likely to be on the partnerships that received some momentum in the last year 2019. And new products with which the DAX Group was also able to draw attention to itself.

Last year, Wirecard was able to convince Aldi, Orange Bank, Playmobil, Mizuho Bank, many, many e-commerce players, UnionPay and other big names, among others, of themselves and their achievements. Here, too, it is important to keep investors in a good mood, although the quality of the cooperation could increase with increasing reputation and awareness. The trend here could be on the side of wirecards, but here, too, the expectations of investors regarding further hot cooperation are certainly relatively high.

In addition, new products should be in the focus of investors in the coming weeks and months. In particular, Wirecard’s rapid entry into direct customer business with an attractive range of interest rates has made waves in recent months, and the first customer numbers may become apparent here in the near future. It should therefore also be exciting here, although the private customer area could of course be a strong future growth driver.

Now must be delivered!

Wirecard could therefore be under some pressure in all of these areas. Expectations are relatively high in terms of growth as well as in cooperations, new products and of course the Causa Wirecard. The Financial Times in particular will ultimately provide a fundamental impetus for the coming quarters and possibly years.

However, all of these issues could dissolve in the coming weeks and months, which could hold significant upside potential for the stock.