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Smiths Group

The past year was a relatively good year for Smiths Group investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Smiths Group. The stock gained around 49 percent. Smiths Group' stock rose the past 5 years at around 61 percent. Smiths Group's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 303,01 billion GBp and 289,7 billion GBp. During 2011 and 2015 Smiths Group's net results were very volatile and fluctuated between 29,64 billion GBp and 30,98 billion GBp.

The head office of Smiths Group is situated in West Sussex. Smiths Group's core business is the diversified industrials sector. The global diversified companies gained around 53 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is 240 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a plus of 53 percent.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Smiths Group's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 195 percent annually. Over the period 2011-2015 Smiths Group raised it's dividends per share each year. Based on the raising dividend payments Smiths Group can be seen as a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Smiths Group financed with a quite low debt position

At the end of 2015 the English company's balance sheet was worth 398 billion GBp. The total debt was around 256,1 billion GBp. This is 64,35 percent of the total balance sheet. Last year the diversified company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 14. So the investors valued the stock at 14 times 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the diversified company equaled around 370,86 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 around 394,74 million stocks were listed.

All Smiths Group's financial reports are available here. More information about Smiths Group can be found it's website. .