In the world of enterprise software, few names carry as much weight as SAP. What started as a small German startup has evolved into the largest publicly listed company in Europe by market capitalization.

Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, has a unique and inspiring origin story rooted in personal tragedy and scientific curiosity. The company’s roots date back to the 1920s, when Danish Nobel laureate August Krogh, a renowned physiologist, and his wife Marie, who suffered from type 2 diabetes, traveled to Canada.

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) is a pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery, revolutionizing the medical field with its da Vinci surgical system. Founded in 1995, the company has continuously innovated, making minimally invasive surgery more precise and efficient.

<<< To see my other narratives, please scroll up and klick on Tokyo (next to my profile picture) >>> Update from 10.03.2025 Now proftiability is no longer ahead, Todd McKinnon reached profitability! In SWS Overview it is staded: "Became profitable this year" Under 2.1 now you can see the break even to $28M.

<<< To see my other narratives, please scroll up and klick on Tokyo (next to my profile picture) >>> My main narrative for ANET: Young company (founded 2004, IPO 2014), disrupting CISCO in the High Speed Switch Market (for Datacenter, Cloud and AI) Very successful introduction of Fast Internet Switches for Brokerage (High Speed Trading) Internet Speed will continuously increase to meet “tactile internet” capabilities (control robots or vehicles over distance (through internet) with nearly no delay) Perfect fit of Arista HW and Arista SW, as known from Apple devices, leads to high customer satisfaction and customer binding I focus also on: More equity than debt. Ratio is at 0%.

My main narrative for KO: Strong brands Well established distribution network (starting from the source (water) over botteling and delivery to selling points) with an "all world" footprint To grow revenue KO now sells also Coffee (Costa) and other beverages over the existing network. The idea is to have the beverage for every daytime, so the offering and with that revenue will still increase To optimize finance (less investments) botteling in several countries is outsourced as a franchise Strong growth in Latin Amerika But: I miss innovations or trend setting Basically they purchase niche players or lower Top5 brands and scale them through their distribution network Or cooperate, in case of Monster beverage I focus also on: ...

Main “Take aways”: - You get a good managed company, with a healthy balance sheet, at a fair price. - There is more “future” than you can see in the Snowflake.

My main narrative for FRE: What former CEO Mark Schneider blow up to an inefficient giant, will now be cut down by actual CEO Michael Sen and trimmed on efficiency from formally 4 segments FMC (dialyses), Helios (private hospitals), Kabi(Generic & Infusions), Vamed (Projects & Digitalization) only 2 remain: Helios, Kabi, the other will be sold, and the intakes will help to restructure the financial situation under Mark Schneider the Spanish hospitals were acquired, this was a good deal: privat hospital runs well in Spain, because of their good reputation wealthy Latin Americans travel for medical treatments to Spain I focus also on: More equity than debt. Ratio is at 62% (debt/equity).

<<< To see my other narratives, please scroll up and klick on Tokyo (next to my profile picture) >>> My main narrative for CRWD: · When founder and CEO George Kurtz founded CRWD in 2011, Cybersecurtiy Software, was nothing new, but with several pain points for customers: reduced system performance, updates needed to be installed, for each problem you needed a different software, so you dealt with silos, … · So he build a fully cloud-based platform, named Falcon. It has a modular concept, and customer pays within an abo model only the contracted modules.

Investing in Stryker (SYK) should be an easy ride Key “Take aways”: - Solid balance sheet - Earnings recovered, with positive outlook. - SYK is fair priced.