Chapter 31 - How does wartime affect stocks? (Patreon)

If a professional investor (or any average Ferengi) saw my portfolio, they’d quickly recognize the overarching investment strategy that I was pursuing. As long as money existed, for some industries/businesses, conflict and war was good for business. Certain market sectors had always done well in wartime. Since I made my first bar of latinum or Federation credit upon coming to this universe, I had invested heavily in those sectors that would benefit from war. Of course, I had not known anything about the Collector threat. They simply never came to be in the prime universe Star Trek canon, but I knew the Dominion War would embroil this entire quadrant in war, which had prompted me to use this strategy.

As you might expect, defense stocks that directly provided weapons and armaments, offensive and defensive, typically saw a huge uptick in value during wartime. Every major power and planet across the quadrant would be in the market for weapons and dumping huge percentages of their budgets into defense contracts. There were companies, yes, even in the Federation, that built and sold large scale orbital defenses and shielding and there were companies that sold hand phasers and disrupter pistols. Both were needed.