Betting on DKSH because I believe in Asia and its markets
Channel: Investing made easy
Date: 01/05/2019

Don't lose sight of the big picture! Anyone who knows the stock market and also invests in it will sooner or later be faced with exactly this challenge. In my case, by now I have more than 70 shares. It is becoming ever more difficult to determine what else to by which is not yet in the portfolio. To get a better overview, I looked at my portfolio with the Google-Sheet. It can be downloaded free of charge.
As a first step, I decided to look at my portfolio by country.

As you can see, no country has more weight than 15%. The top countries are Switzerland with 13% and Germany with 12%. Non-European countries are rare in my portfolio which is to be expected. My focus so far has been on Europe because I think it is generally undervalued. I also wanted to start investing in markets I know best.
If we now look at my portfolio not by country, but by sector, we see that it is even more balanced:

All but one industry has a weight below 10% - exception being the "Industrial" sector. However, this is not really a single sector, as it covers a broad field of activity that is not limited to its own sector boundaries. For example, an industrial company can sell to the energy, automotive or construction sectors. And all this with different risks and cycles. That is why I am not worried.
More importantly, there is another piece of information, which can be found in the sector breakdown of my portfolio: It shows that I have only invested to a limited extent in service companies. I find service companies very interesting. They tend to be more resistant to slumps because their costs are more flexible. They have fewer fixed costs. So these stocks drop less in a recession.
Therefore, I have to download the entire Obermatt rank database to filter for service companies. So can you. The entire database is available as a link to a file that you can download into the Google Sheet app. This link is included in the weekly stock update for all premium subscribers.
For the next step in the analysis, I used a filter to find large European service companies with good Obermatt ranks. But there were still too many. I also filtered out all those stocks that could only come up with half-yearly reports. This means that the last report is quite old - in most cases from last summer. After all the filtering I got the following result:

This is somewhat disappointing, as all these service providers have a growth problem - with the exception of Beijer Ref from Sweden. I looked at this company but found that they are a construction service provider. Especially when it comes to protection from recessions as is the strategy of my current investment portfolio, I do not want construction service providers, but pure service providers.
The next company I looked at was Intrum. They have the highest value rank. But they are a credit provider. That also goes against my grain. People should first save their money before they spend it.
But the second one on my list, DKSH, is a Swiss service company! It offers sales support in Asia. That sounds interesting. I firmly believe in Asia and the emerging markets. In addition, I recently met the new CEO of the company and I keep him in high regard.
Services in Asia. Yes, I like that. I am choosing DKSH today. That is my decision. I wish you success with your decision. 
 



Author/Lecture
DR. HERMANN J. STERN

Video/Editing
NAIM RASHITI, rashiti.com