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Stanley Black & Decker

The past year was a good year for Stanley Black & Decker investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 13 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock rose around 74 percent. Stanley Black & Decker's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 10,19 billion dollars and 11,17 billion dollars. Stanley Black & Decker's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 691,2 million dollars and 902,2 million dollars.

The core activities of Stanley Black & Decker are in the construction/infrastructure sector. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 13 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 46 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 13 percent.

Over the past 5 years the American company paid out dividends. Stanley Black & Decker's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 9,6 percent per year. Over the period 2011-2015 Stanley Black & Decker raised it's dividends per share each year. Because of the yearly increased dividends Stanley Black & Decker can be called a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Stanley Black & Decker financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the construction/infrastructure company's balance sheet equaled 15,17 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 9,36 billion dollars. This is around 61,7 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2015 the construction/infrastructure company's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 15. So the stock' value was 15 times the 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the construction/infrastructure company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 16,06 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 153,94 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

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