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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty is mostly active in the construction sector. The global construction companies lost around 8 percent over the last 10 years. As from 2011 the sector is 23 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 8 percent.

The past year gave good returns for Balfour Beatty investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 1 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a modest 4,18 percent. Balfour Beatty's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 865,6 billion GBp and 695,5 billion GBp. Balfour Beatty's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 20,12 billion GBp and 5,6 billion GBp.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the Balfour Beatty stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 47,6 percent over the past 5 years.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Balfour Beatty

Last year the balance sheet of the English company was worth 460,1 billion GBp. 377,5 billion GBp (82,05 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. At the end of 2015 the construction company's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 26. So the stock' value was 26 times the 2015' earnings per share. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the English stock can be seen as a growth stock.

At the end of 2015 the construction company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 185,09 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 685 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

All Balfour Beatty's annual reports can be found here. More information about Balfour Beatty can be found it's website. .