Continental

The past year was a profitable year Continental investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a bad period for the investors. The stock lost almost 18 percent. Continental' stock rose the past 5 years at around 275 percent. Continental's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 32,74 billion euros and 39,23 billion euros. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and fluctuated between 1,33 billion euros and 2,78 billion euros.

Continental's head office is based in Hanover. Continental is mostly active in the car services sector. Elmar Degenhart manages the company as a CEO. Wolfgang Schaefer leads the company as CFO. Between 2006 and 2016 the global automobile companies gained around 93 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 90 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 93 percent.

The German company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years Continental's dividend yield was at around 13,25 percent per year.

At the end of 2015 the company had around 189,17 thousand people employed.

Continental' balance mostly financed with equity

At the end of 2015 the German company had a balance sheet of around 32,84 billion euros. The total debt of the automobile company was at the end of 2015 20,05 billion euros, which equals around 61,06 percent of the total balance sheet. The German company's price/earnings-ratio was 12. So the market valued the stock at 12 times the 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the German stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the automobile company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 43,03 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the German company had around 200 million stocks listed.

All the company's financial reports are available here. More information about Continental can be found it's website. .