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ABB

The past year was a profitable year for the ABB investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 23 percent. Over the past 5 years ABB' stock rose at around 32 percent in value. ABB's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 36,01 billion CHFF and 35,54 billion CHFF. ABB's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 3,16 billion CHFF and 2,7 billion CHFF.

The head office of ABB is situated in Zurich. The core activities of ABB are in the semiconductor sector. The global semiconductor companies gained around 58 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 58 percent.

The Swiss company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. ABB's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 3,53 percent per year.

At the end of 2015 ABB employed at around 140,4 thousand people.

ABB' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the semiconductor company's balance sheet equaled 41,43 billion CHFF. Last year the total debt of the company was 26,92 billion CHFF. This equals around 64,98 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 ABB's price/earnings-ratio equaled 18. So investors paid for 1 stock 18 times the earnings per share of 2015. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the Swiss 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 semiconductor company equaled around 38,89 billion CHFF. At the end of 2015 the Swiss company had around 2,23 billion stocks listed.

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