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Spirent

Spirent's headquarter is based in West Sussex. The company mostly operates in the telecommunications sector. The global telecommunications companies gained around 5 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is -2 percent lower and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 5 percent.

The past year was a relatively good year for Spirent investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 34 percent. Over the past 5 years Spirent' stock lost at around 43 percent in value. Spirent's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively stable and moved between 29,07 billion GBp and 32,37 billion GBp. Spirent's net results between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 5,72 billion GBp and 1,48 billion GBp.

Spirent paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Spirent's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 11,15 percent per year.

Spirent' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the English company's balance sheet was worth 4,17 billion GBp. 23,77 billion GBp (570,31 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. Last year the telecommunications company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 32. So the investors valued the stock at 32 times 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the telecommunications company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 43,65 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 610,5 million stocks listed.

All the annual reports of Spirent are available here. More information about Spirent can be found it's website. .