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L'Oreal

L'Oreal mainly operates in the health care eq. & services sector. The global health care companies gained around 102 percent over the period 2006-2016. Since 2011 the sector is 64 percent higher and over the past year plus 102 percent.

The past year was a good investment year for L'Oreal investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in L'Oreal. The stock gained around 10 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock rose around 114 percent. L'Oreal's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 22,46 billion euros and 25,26 billion euros. During 2011 and 2015 L'Oreal's net results were very volatile and fluctuated between 2,44 billion euros and 3,29 billion euros.

The French company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the L'Oreal stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 12,6 percent over the past 5 years. In the period 2011 till 2015 L'Oreal paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. Based on the raising dividend payments L'Oreal can be seen as a kind of dividend aristocrat.

At the end of 2015 L'Oreal employed at around 78,61 thousand people.

Healthy financed: not so much debt L'Oreal

At the end of 2015 the French company had a balance sheet of 33,71 billion euros. Last year the total debt of the company was 10,1 billion euros. This equals around 29,95 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 L'Oreal's price/earnings-ratio equaled 23. So investors paid for 1 stock 23 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the French stock can be seen as a value stock.

The health care company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 84,1 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the French company had around 557,35 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

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