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BP

BP has located her head office London. The company mostly operates in the oil & gas sector. The global oil & gas producers gained around 20 percent over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is -7 percent lower and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 20 percent.

The past year yielded positive returns for BP investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in BP. The stock gained around 45 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 13 percent. BP's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 23122,7 billion GBp and 15123,8 billion GBp. BP's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 1559,04 billion GBp and 298,21 billion GBp.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years BP's dividend yield was at around 112,88 percent per year.

BP financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the oil & gas producer's balance sheet was worth 17765,8 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 11169,5 billion GBp. This is around 62,87 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2016 the English company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 26. So investors paid 26 times the company's 2015's EPS. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

The oil & gas producer's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 6486,55 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 18,32 billion stocks listed.

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