The Swedish stock market offers investors a wide range of investment opportunities. The Stockholm Stock Exchange is home to companies from heavy industry as well as leading technology companies and firms from the automotive, pharmaceutical, medical, financial services, telecommunications and other sectors. The country's leading index is the OMX Stockholm 30, and the 30 listed companies account for approximately half of the trading volume and two-thirds of the market capitalization of all stocks traded on the OMX. We present a selection of Swedish stocks in this article.
By the way: Shares from Sweden are available at CapTrader directly on the Stockholm Stock Exchange from 40.00 SEK Order fee tradable.
Volvo
- Company: AB Volvo (publ)
- Symbol (TWS): VOLV.B
- ISIN: SE0000115446
- Stock Exchange: Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Country: Sweden
- Currency: Swedish krona (SEK)
- Market capitalization: SEK 416.42 billion / USD 42.59 billion
- Sales (TTM) in USD: 383.52 billion
The Automobile manufacturer Volvo is one of the heavyweights in the Swedish benchmark index OMX 30. The Gothenburg-based company manufactures cars, trucks, buses, construction equipment, diesel engines, and marine and industrial engines. The company's brand portfolio consists of Volvo, Volvo Penta, UD, Terex Trucks, Renault Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus and Mack. The company's exposure to the heavy equipment market puts it in a very good position to benefit from an upturn in business in the mining sector. While the stock is also currently in a correction, the long-term upward trend is intact at the time of writing this article. In addition, a dividend yield of currently around 4 % is also interesting for income investors.
Getinge
- Company: Getinge AB
- Symbol (TWS): GETI.B
- ISIN: SE0000202624
- Stock Exchange: Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Country: Sweden
- Currency: Swedish krona (SEK)
- Market capitalization: SEK 76.59 billion / USD 7.83 billion
- Sales (TTM) in USD: 27.06 billion
Another company from Gothenburg is the medical technology company Getinge. Founded in 1904, Getinge develops, manufactures and sells products and services for operating rooms, intensive care units, hospital departments, sterilization departments and elderly care facilities. The company offers its products through a network of its own sales companies as well as agents and distributors in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, in the last two years, the Infection Control business was well positioned to benefit from the COVID pandemic. The other operating segments, Medical Systems and Extended Care, are also well positioned to benefit from the medical needs of the aging population in the UK, France, the USA and Australia, where the company operates.
Nordea
- Company: Nordea Bank Abp
- Symbol (TWS): NDASE
- ISIN: FI4000297767
- Stock Exchange: Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Country: Sweden
- Currency: Swedish krona (SEK)
- Market capitalization: SEK 390.88 billion / USD 39.98 billion
- Sales (TTM) in USD: 8.92 billion
Nordea is one of the leading Banks in Northern Europe and the Baltic States. The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, but its stock is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and is a member of the Swedish benchmark index OMX 30. Nordea was formed from a merger of Finland's Merita Bank and Sweden's Nordbanken. It later merged with Denmark's Unibank and Norway's Christiania Bank. The company is active in retail banking, corporate finance, and asset management and life insurance. With a dividend yield of approximately 7 %, Nordea is considered a high-quality dividend stock.
Ericsson
- Company: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Symbol (TWS): ERIC.B
- ISIN: SE0000108656
- Stock Exchange: Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Country: Sweden
- Currency: Swedish krona (SEK)
- Market capitalization: SEK 263 billion / USD 26.9 billion
- Sales (TTM) in USD: 237.6 billion
Ericsson is a world-renowned telecommunications company that provides communications infrastructure, services and software solutions to the telecommunications sector and other industries. Ericsson was founded 150 years ago by Lars Magnus Ericsson and was an early pioneer in building telephones and telephone exchanges. The company was involved in building telephone exchanges and telephones for over 100 years and continues to do so to some extent today. Today, Ericsson operates in over 180 countries worldwide and employs approximately 100,000 people. The company holds over 50,000 patents, including many in the field of wireless communications. The company is also the inventor of Bluetooth technology and is a world leader in the implementation of 5G.
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M)
- Company: H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ)
- Symbol (TWS): HM.B
- ISIN: SE0000106270
- Stock Exchange: Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Country: Sweden
- Currency: Swedish krona (SEK)
- Market capitalization: SEK 219.3 billion / USD 22.43 billion
- Sales (TTM) in USD: 208.07 billion
Hennes & Mauritz - H&M for short - is a globally renowned textile company with its headquarters in Stockholm. The company operates almost 5000 stores worldwide, most of which are located in city centers. H&M's products include clothing, accessories, shoes, cosmetics, home textiles and household goods for women, men, teenagers, children and babies. In addition to the stores, the products are available in many countries via the H&M online stores. The share is currently in a downward trend, which has recently intensified due to weaker growth. H&M was one of the first retailers to cease all activities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus after the start of the war in Ukraine and closed almost 200 stores. Online trading in Russia was also discontinued.