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The past year yielded positive returns for Persimmon investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were loss-making period for the investors in Persimmon, the stock lost around 10 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 352 percent. Persimmon's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 172,14 billion GBp and 290,17 billion GBp. Persimmon's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 10,06 billion GBp and 52,39 billion GBp.

Persimmon's main office is based in London. The core activities of Persimmon are in the real estate sector. The global real estate companies gained over the past 10 years on average 8 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 8 percent.

Over the past 5 years the English company paid out dividends. On average Persimmon's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 120 percent annually.

Persimmon financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the real estate company's balance sheet was worth 382,18 billion GBp. 136,6 billion GBp (35,74 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. At the end of 2016 the English company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 9. So investors paid 9 times the company's 2015's EPS. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

The real estate company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 621,07 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 306,4 million stocks listed.

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