FRANKFURT (dpa-AFX Broker) - Eckert & Ziegler shares reached their highest level since mid-June on Wednesday. Around midday, the shares of the medical and radiation technology company in second place in the second-line index SDax rose by 5.3 percent.

Since the end of September, the increase has already amounted to more than a third. The Berlin-based company is preparing for rising demand for radioisotopes, wrote analyst Alexander Galitsa from Hauck Aufhäuser Investment Banking in a recent study.