Top 5 companies hugely affected by the coronavirus crisis

While some assets, such as Tesla or Beyond Meat shares, made the most of the coronavirus crisis, prices of some other instruments traded on capital markets significantly dropped. From 1st April to 30th April 2020, oil was undoubtedly the most affected commodity.

Wirecard

100 USD per share – 90 USD per share / -10%

Munich based tech company paid the price for its accounting fraud, which affected progress of the company’s share on stock exchange. The scandal had been revealed before the pandemic and pushed shares into negative values in the long term. Shares plunged in 15% after April’s audit and during the month wrote off 90 EUR (101 USD) from 100 EUR (112 USD) per share, what represents 10% drop. Wirecard has joined companies, whose value appeared in the red in the beginning of 2020 second quarter.