For a long time she had been expected with anxiety rather than confidence.
But now the dividend season is here in Germany - and it is surprisingly positive.
The favorable development not only pleases declared dividend collectors, but also increases the chance that the German stock market will continue to rise overall.
At the beginning of the year, analysts feared that the German dividend season 2021 would be a blow in the water: They had expected massive discounts across the industries. After all, 2020 was a year of recession and after a year of recession, companies typically skimp on profit sharing. Now it has been shown that the stock exchange corporations give the lie to the pessimism of the experts. And WELT knows which stocks shareholders can particularly rely on.