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Dover

The past year was a good year for Dover investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were profitable period for the investors in Dover, the stock gained around 30 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 61 percent. Dover's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively stable and moved between 8,1 billion dollars and 6,96 billion dollars. Dover's net results between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 846,37 million dollars and 595,88 million dollars.

The company's head quarter is located in Downers Grove. The core activities of Dover are in the diversified industrials sector. Dover is being led by CEO Robert A. Livingston. Brad M. Cerepak is as CFO financially responsible for the company. The global diversified companies gained around 53 percent over the last 10 years. Since 2011 the sector is 240 percent higher and over the past year plus 53 percent.

Over the past 5 years the American company paid out dividends. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 7,15 percent.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Dover

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 8,62 billion dollars. Of the total balance sheet 4,98 billion dollars (57,72 percent) was financed by debt. Last year the diversified company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 18. So the investors valued the stock at 18 times 2015' earnings per share. 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 diversified company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 9,32 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 155 million stocks were listed.

All Dover's financial reports are located here. More information about Dover can be found it's website. .