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Vishay Precision Group

The past year yielded positive returns for Vishay Precision Group investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Vishay Precision Group. The stock gained around 61 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 24,67 percent. Vishay Precision Group's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 217,62 million dollars and 232,18 million dollars. Vishay Precision Group's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile and moved between 10,79 million dollars and -12,99 million dollars.

The core activities of Vishay Precision Group are in the industrial goods sector. Over the past 10 years the global industrial companies gained around 33 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 47 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a plus of 33 percent.

Vishay Precision Group didn't pay out any dividends (in the past 5 years). Vishay Precision Group raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. Based on the raising dividend payments Vishay Precision Group can be seen as a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Vishay Precision Group' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 264,3 million dollars. 92,04 million dollars (34,82 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. The American company's price/earnings-ratio was -34. So the market valued the stock at -34 times the 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a growth stock.

At the end of 2015 the industrial company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 146,04 million dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 13,49 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

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