{"id":65422,"date":"2025-10-16T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/16\/dax-down-slightly-sartorius-soars-10-on-strong-sales-forecast\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:15:08","slug":"dax-down-slightly-sartorius-soars-10-on-strong-sales-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/16\/dax-down-slightly-sartorius-soars-10-on-strong-sales-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Down Slightly; Sartorius Soars 10% On Strong Sales Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stocks are turning in a mixed performance on Thursday as investors largely stay cautious amid a lack of fresh data, and await earnings updates and continue to monitor political developments in France. <\/p>\n<p>U.S.-China trade tensions weigh on sentiment, while expectations of further rate cuts from the Federal Reserve help limit market&#8217;s downside.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX, which slid to 24,051.25 earlier in the session, was down 5.88 points or 0.02% at 24,205.10 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Merck is down by about 2.9%. Heidelberg Materials is down 1.7% and Zalando is lower by 1.3%. <\/p>\n<p>Munich RE, E.ON and Deutsche Bank are down 0.8 to 1%, while Bayer, Siemens Energy and SAP are lower by 0.4 to 0.6%<\/p>\n<p>Symrise and Rheinmetall are gaining 1.3% and 1.4%, respectively. Adidas, Siemens Healthineers, Qiagen, Brenntag, Henkel, Mercedes-Benz and Beiersdorf are up with moderate gains.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Laboratory and pharmaceutical supplier Sartorius is gaining about 10% after the company raised its full-year sales forecast after a strong Q3.<\/p>\n<p>Sartorius said its nine-month profit surged 66% from a year ago, helped by strong performances by all divisions. During the nine-month period, sales revenue came in at 2.61 billion euros, up 5.5% from 2.47 billion euros in the prior-year period. On a constant currency basis, sale revenue rose 7.5% from the year-ago period.<\/p>\n<p>Sartorius has raised its full-year sales revenue guidance for the Group and its divisions. The company now expects Group sales revenue to grow by about 7%, compared to the earlier forecast of around 6% organic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Dragerwerk shares are soaring nearly 12%. The German medical and safety <span class=\"landLinks\">technology<\/span> manufacturer gave a more optimistic outlook for the full year following growth in the past quarter. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>DAX Down Slightly; Sartorius Soars 10% On Strong Sales Forecast<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-16 10:15:08<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are turning in a mixed performance on Thursday as investors largely stay cautious amid a lack of fresh data, and await earnings updates and continue to monitor political&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}