Aperam

Aperam is mostly active in the industrial metals sector. The global industrial companies lost around 21 percent over the period 2006-2016. Since 2011 the sector is -30 percent lower and over the past year minus 21 percent.

The past year was a good year for Aperam investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 42 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 317,49 percent. Aperam's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 4,1 billion euros and 4,3 billion euros. Aperam's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between -44,77 million euros and 150 million euros.

The Dutch company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Aperam's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 1,6 percent per year. Over the period 2011-2015 Aperam raised it's dividends per share each year. So we could call Aperam a kind of dividend aristocrat.

At the end of 2015 around 9500 thousand people were on Aperam' payroll.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Aperam

At the end of 2015 the Dutch company's balance sheet was worth 3,9 billion euros. Of the total balance sheet 1,8 billion euros (46,15 percent) was financed by debt. The Dutch company's price/earnings-ratio was 14. So the market valued the stock at 14 times the 2015' earnings per share. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the Dutch stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the industrial company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 3,02 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the Dutch company had around 96,22 million stocks listed.

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