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Preferred Bank

The past year gave good returns for Preferred Bank investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 47 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 569 percent. Preferred Bank's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 12,23 million dollars and 29,71 million dollars.

Preferred Bank is mostly active in the financial services sector. Over the past 10 years the global financial companies gained around 15 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 38 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 15 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Preferred Bank's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 0,71 percent per year.

Preferred Bank financed with relatively low debt

Last year the balance sheet of the American company was worth 2,6 billion dollars. Of the total balance sheet 2,34 billion dollars (89,85 percent) was financed by debt. The American company's price/earnings-ratio was 13. So the market valued the stock at 13 times the 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

The financial company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 439,58 million dollars. At the end of 2015 around 13,48 million stocks were listed.

All the annual reports of Preferred Bank are available here. More information about Preferred Bank can be found it's website. .