Europe's hottest stock has an American architect
Financial Express Pune|December 24, 2024
FORCED TO SEEK a government rescue barely a year ago, Siemens Energy was an unlikely candidate for Europe's best-performing stock of 2024.
CHRIS BRYANT Bloomberg

The fact that a General Electric spin-off, GE Vernova, unwittingly assisted its rival's resurrection is even more remarkable. Yet, the more investors compare the two electrical power-equipment giants, the more the German firm should benefit.

Spun out of Siemens AG in 2020, Siemens Energy was forced to ask Berlin for financial guarantees in 2023 following quality problems and massive losses at its wind unit. From that nadir, the stock price has since increased around sevenfold as investors bet the wind issues won't require a dilutive recapitalisation and began paying more attention to the company's gas turbine and power-grid activities, which are benefiting from rising electricity demand. This year's 300% price gain exceeds that of any other member of the Stoxx Europe 600 index.

Siemens Energy's stock market debut during the early part of a global pandemic was inauspicious: the gas and power activities appeared to be low-growth and were barely profitable, triggering significant restructuring. Things soon got much worse: In 2022, Siemens Energy agreed to pay €4 billion to purchase the roughly one-third of shares in power subsidiary Siemens Gamesa it didn't already own.

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