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John Deere

The past year was a profitable year for John Deere investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 37 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 34 percent. John Deere's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 36,16 billion dollars and 28,44 billion dollars. John Deere's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 2,8 billion dollars and 1,94 billion dollars.

John Deere has located her head office Moline. The core activities of John Deere are in the industrial engineering sector. SAMUEL R. ALLEN is leading the company as CEO. The CFO of the company is SHERRY M. SMITH. The global industrial companies gained over the past 10 years on average 81 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 29 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 81 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. John Deere's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 9,92 percent per year. In the period 2011 till 2015 John Deere paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. Because of the yearly increased dividends John Deere can be called a kind of dividend aristocrat.

John Deere' balance mostly consists of equity

As per the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet equaled 57,95 billion dollars. The total debt was around 51,2 billion dollars. This is 88,36 percent of the total balance sheet. Last year the industrial company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 15. So the investors valued the stock at 15 times 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the industrial company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 23,76 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 316,69 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

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