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Cliffs Natural Resources

Cliffs Natural Resources 's main office is based in Cleveland. The core activities of Cliffs Natural Resources are in the mining sector. Lourenco Goncalves is the company' CEO. Terrance Paradie leads the company as CFO. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 72 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 72 percent.

Past year was a negative year for Cliffs Natural Resources investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were profitable period for the investors in Cliffs Natural Resources , the stock gained around 493 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a bad period for the investors. The stock lost around 86 percent. Cliffs Natural Resources 's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 5,87 billion dollars and 2,01 billion dollars. Cliffs Natural Resources 's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 1,82 billion dollars and 143,8 million dollars.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 4,2 percent. Cliffs Natural Resources raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. Because of the yearly increased dividends Cliffs Natural Resources can be called a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Cliffs Natural Resources financed with relatively low debt

As per the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet equaled 2,14 billion dollars. The total debt of the mining company was at the end of 2015 4,12 billion dollars, which equals around 192,78 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Cliffs Natural Resources 's price/earnings-ratio equaled -7. So investors paid for 1 stock -7 times the earnings per share of 2015. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

The mining company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 238,07 million dollars. At the end of 2015 around 153,59 million stocks were listed.

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