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The past year was a profitable year for General Motors investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in General Motors. The stock gained around 8 percent. Over the past 5 years General Motors' stock rose at around 80 percent in value. General Motors's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 152,26 billion dollars and 152,36 billion dollars. General Motors's net results between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 6,1 billion dollars and 9,62 billion dollars.

The head office of General Motors is situated in Providence. General Motors mainly operates in the automobile sector. DANIEL F. AKERSON is operating by ' CEO. Daniel Ammann is financially responsible for the company as CFO. The global automobile producers gained over the past 10 years on average 36 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 47 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 36 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 2,58 percent. Over the past 5 years General Motors raised her dividends share each year. So we could call General Motors a kind of dividend aristocrat.

General Motors had about 216 thousand employees at the end of 2015.

General Motors financed with a quite low debt position

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 194,52 billion dollars. The total debt of the automobile producer was at the end of 2015 154,65 billion dollars, which equals around 79,5 percent of the total balance sheet. The American company's price/earnings-ratio was 6. So the market valued the stock at 6 times the 2015' earnings per share. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the American company's market capitalization equaled around 49,61 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 1,5 billion stocks listed on the exchanges.

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