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Prudential

The past year was a profitable year for Prudential investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Prudential. The stock gained around 6 percent. Over the period 2011-2016 the stock rose a massive 159,22 percent. Prudential's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 5443,8 billion GBp and 4130,5 billion GBp. Prudential's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 141,9 billion GBp and 257,9 billion GBp.

Prudential has her headquarter located in West Sussex. The core activities of Prudential are in the insurance sector. The global insurers gained around 4 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. Over the past 5 years the sector is 17 percent higher.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Prudential's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 163,66 percent per year. Prudential raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. Because of the yearly increased dividends Prudential can be called a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Prudential financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the English company had a balance sheet of 38698,5 billion GBp. The total debt was around 37403 billion GBp. This is 96,65 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Prudential's price/earnings-ratio equaled 15. So investors paid for 1 stock 15 times the earnings per share of 2015. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the insurer's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 3879,62 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 around 2,55 billion stocks were listed.

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