Spectris

Past year was a negative year for Spectris investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Spectris. The stock gained around 27 percent. Over the past 5 years Spectris' stock rose at around 58 percent in value. Spectris's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 123,08 billion GBp and 119 billion GBp. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and fluctuated between 12,92 billion GBp and 10,61 billion GBp.

Spectris has located her head office Surrey. Spectris is active in the hardware sector. The global hardware & equipment companies gained around 122 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. As from 2011 the sector is 91 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a plus of 122 percent.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Spectris's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 211,35 percent per year. Over the past 5 years Spectris raised her dividends share each year. Because of the yearly increased dividends Spectris can be called a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Spectris

At the end of 2015 the hardware & equipment company's balance sheet equaled 145,91 billion GBp. Last year the total debt of the company was 49,31 billion GBp. This equals around 33,79 percent of the total balance sheet. Last year the hardware & equipment company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 24. So the investors valued the stock at 24 times 2015' earnings per share. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

The hardware & equipment company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 214,44 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 119 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

All the annual reports of Spectris are available here. More information about Spectris can be found it's website. .