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About Trade & Value AG

Trade & Value AG is a German investment company, historically associated with trading on the Hamburg open market segment and followed by investors who focus on German small-cap opportunities. For a French-speaking or international investor, it should be viewed primarily as a listed portfolio-investment vehicle rather than a conventional industrial or commercial business. Its model is built around two complementary pillars: short-term trading, aimed at capturing tactical market opportunities, and value investing over the medium to long term in securities viewed as undervalued. That combination is the core of the company’s capital-allocation philosophy. The company was created at the end of 2001 following the acquisition of assets from an investment club founded in 1996, which gives it a background rooted in private investing and fundamental analysis of German equities. Its operational address is in Munich, Germany, at c/o StB Weilermann, Leopoldstraße 70, 80802 München, underlining a lean and specialized structure. In business-line terms, Trade & Value AG concentrates on active portfolio management in equities. Publicly available information indicates a focus on second-line German shares, as well as undervalued or turnaround situations. The long-term investment process is described as fundamentally driven, while the trading sleeve is used more opportunistically to exploit market dislocations and price movements. For investors, this means direct exposure to the German equity market through a corporate wrapper, with a risk profile that can be elevated, especially given the company’s small scale and the often limited liquidity of the securities it targets. From a competitive standpoint, the company does not operate in the same league as large listed asset managers in Germany. Its niche is micro-caps and small caps, with a limited market footprint but substantial flexibility in capital deployment. That positioning may appeal to investors seeking a “skin in the game” style vehicle with conviction-based capital allocation, but it also implies potentially thin liquidity and a strong reliance on stock-picking quality. Recent developments reinforce this profile. On 30 May 2025, Trade & Value AG published its 2023 and 2024 annual financial statements, reporting a full-year result of EUR -139,947.65 for 2023 and EUR -40,649.59 for 2024, indicating an improvement year on year. The company also announced in 2025 the sale of 18,900 treasury shares, representing roughly 5.04% of share capital, at EUR 1.61 per share to strategic partners. For investors, the key watchpoints therefore remain capital-allocation discipline, the ability to generate value in the small-cap universe, and the flow of MAR Article 19 / BaFin-related insider-dealing disclosures. Even though Xetra/Frankfurt (DAX/MDAX/SDAX) are the natural market reference points in Germany, Trade & Value AG is not described here as a constituent of those major indices.