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K+S Group

The past year was a profitable year for the K+S Group investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a bad period for the investors. The stock lost almost 7 percent. K+S Group' stock lost the past 5 years at around 38 percent. K+S Group's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 3,95 billion euros and 4,18 billion euros. K+S Group's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 564,3 million euros and 542,3 million euros.

K+S Group is active in the industrial metals sector. The past 10 years the (international) industry lost at around 21 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is -30 percent lower and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 21 percent.

The German company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years K+S Group's dividend yield was at around 5 percent per year. In the period 2011 till 2015 K+S Group paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. So because of the yearly raised dividends per share K+S Group is a kind of dividend aristocrat.

At the end of 2015 the company had around 14,3 thousand people employed.

K+S Group financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the industrial company's balance sheet was worth 8,27 billion euros. Last year the total debt of the company was 3,98 billion euros. This equals around 48,08 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 K+S Group's price/earnings-ratio equaled 8. So investors paid for 1 stock 8 times the earnings per share of 2015. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the German stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the industrial company equaled around 4,35 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the German company had around 191,4 million stocks listed.

All K+S Group's financial reports are available here. More information about K+S Group can be found it's website. .