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Laboratory Corp. of America

The past year was a relatively good year for Laboratory Corp. of America investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 5 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 51,41 percent. Laboratory Corp. of America's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 5,67 billion dollars and 8,68 billion dollars. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and fluctuated between 533,1 million dollars and 438 million dollars.

Laboratory Corp. of America's main office is based in Burlington. Laboratory Corp. of America is active in the pharmaceutical sector. David P. King is the company' CEO. The CFO of the company is William B. Hayes. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 75 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 147 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 75 percent.

The American company didn't pay out any dividends (in the past 5 years). Laboratory Corp. of America raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. So we could call Laboratory Corp. of America a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Laboratory Corp. of America' balance mostly consists of equity

As per the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet equaled 14,22 billion dollars. The total debt was around 9,28 billion dollars. This is 65,23 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Laboratory Corp. of America's price/earnings-ratio equaled 21. So investors paid for 1 stock 21 times the earnings per share of 2015. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

The pharmaceutical company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 12,41 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 101,3 million stocks were listed.

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