Ulrich Spiesshofer - ABB CEO

ABB Stock  SEK 493.90  1.10  0.22%   

CEO

Mr. Ulrich Spiesshofer was Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Group Executive Committee at ABB Ltd since September 15, 2013. He was Member of the Companys Executive Committee since November 2005, having held such positions as Head of Corporationrationrate Development and Head of Discrete Automation and Motion Division. From 2002 to 2005, he was Senior Partner and Global Head of Operations Practice at Roland Berger AG. From 2001 to 2002, he held various positions with A.T. Kearney International AG and its affiliates, including the position of Managing Director in A.T. Kearney International AG, Switzerland, Leader of Asia Operations Practice at A.T. Kearney Pty. Ltd in Australia and others since 2013.
Age 52
Tenure 11 years
Phone41 43 317 71 11
Webhttps://global.abb/group/en
Spiesshofer began his professional career as Lecturer in Business Management at Universitaet Stuttgart in 1989, where he obtained a Master degree in Business Administration and a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Economics.

ABB Management Efficiency

The company has return on total asset (ROA) of 0.0543 % which means that it generated a profit of $0.0543 on every $100 spent on assets. This is way below average. Similarly, it shows a return on equity (ROE) of 0.1804 %, meaning that it generated $0.1804 on every $100 dollars invested by stockholders. ABB's management efficiency ratios could be used to measure how well ABB manages its routine affairs as well as how well it operates its assets and liabilities.
The company has accumulated 5.14 B in total debt with debt to equity ratio (D/E) of 85.0, indicating the company may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations. ABB has a current ratio of 1.29, suggesting that it is in a questionable position to pay out its financial obligations in time and when they become due. Debt can assist ABB until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, ABB's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like ABB sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for ABB to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about ABB's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.

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ABB Ltd manufactures and sells electrification, industrial automation, and robotics and motion products for customers in utilities, industry and transport, and infrastructure worldwide. ABB Ltd was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. ABB Ltd operates under Diversified Industrials classification in Sweden and is traded on Stockholm Stock Exchange. It employs 147000 people. ABB (ABB) is traded on Stockholm Exchange in Sweden and employs 105,130 people.

Management Performance

ABB Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the ABB's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: ABB inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of ABB. The board's role is to monitor ABB's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. ABB's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, ABB's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Tarak Mehta, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Electrification Products division
Frederico Curado, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer
Morten Wierod, Managing Director - Business Unit Drives and Member of the Executive Committee
AnnSofie Nordh, Group Relations
Jennifer Li, Member of the Board of Director
Sylvia Hill, Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Executive Committee
VeliMatti Reinikkala, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Europe region
Claudio Facchin, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Power Grids division
David Constable, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Gunnar Brock, Non-Executive Independent Director
Geraldine Matchett, Non-Executive Independent Director
Ulrich Spiesshofer, CEO
Bernhard Jucker, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Europe region and Chairman of Divisional Transformation Team
Bjorn Rosengren, Chief Officer
Carolina Granat, Chief Officer
Eric Elzvik, CFO
Matti Alahuhta, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Peter Terwiesch, Member of the Executive Committee and Head of the Process Automation division
Timo Ihamuotila, CFO, Member of the Executive Committee
Lars Forberg, Member of the Board of Directors
Sami Atiya, Member of the Executive Committee and Presidentident of the Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division
Diane Victor, Heal of Legal and Integrity, General Counsel and Secretary
Frank Duggan, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Asia, Middle East and Africa region
Christoph Sieder, Head of Group Corporate Communications
Chunyuan Gu, President of the Asia, Middle East and Africa Region, Member of the Group Executive Committee
Jacob Wallenberg, Non-Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Greg Scheu, Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Americas region and Head of Group Service and Business Integration
David Meline, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Ying Yeh, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Alec Joannou, Chief Officer
Alanna Abrahamson, Head of Investor Relations
Satish Pai, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
JeanChristophe Deslarzes, Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Executive Committee
Peter Voser, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Louis Hughes, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Andrea Antonelli, G Sec
Jessica Mitchell, Head - Investor Relations
Michel Rosen, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors

ABB Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right stock is not an easy task. Is ABB a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.
Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards ABB in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, ABB's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from ABB options trading.

Pair Trading with ABB

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if ABB position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in ABB will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to ABB could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace ABB when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back ABB - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling ABB to buy it.
The correlation of ABB is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as ABB moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if ABB moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for ABB can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in ABB. Also, note that the market value of any company could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors.
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