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The past year was a profitable year for the Visa investors

Over the last 12 months, that were profitable period for the investors in Visa, the stock gained around 1 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 210 percent. Visa's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 10,42 billion dollars and 13,88 billion dollars. Visa's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 3,65 billion dollars and 6,33 billion dollars.

Visa primarily operates in the financial services sector. The global financial companies gained around 15 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is 38 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 15 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Visa's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 1,58 percent per year. Over the past 5 years the company raised it's dividends each year. So we could call Visa a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Visa' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet was worth 40,24 billion dollars. The total debt of the financial company was at the end of 2015 10,39 billion dollars, which equals around 25,83 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Visa's price/earnings-ratio equaled 25. So investors paid for 1 stock 25 times the earnings per share of 2015. 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 147,36 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 1,95 billion stocks listed.

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