Nvidia

Nvidia's head office is located in Santa Clara. The core activities of Nvidia are in the hardware sector. JenHsun Huang is the company' CEO. The CFO of the company is David White. Between 2006 and 2016 the global hardware & equipment companies gained around 122 percent. Measured since 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 past year was a profitable year for the Nvidia investors

Over the period from December 2015 till December 2016 the stock gained around 225 percent. Nvidia' stock rose the past 5 years at around 670 percent. Nvidia's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 4,28 billion dollars and 5,01 billion dollars. Nvidia's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were quiet similar and moved between 581,09 million dollars and 614 million dollars.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Nvidia's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 1,13 percent annually.

At the end of 2015 around 9228 thousand people were on Nvidia' payroll.

Nvidia financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the hardware & equipment company's balance sheet equaled 7,37 billion dollars. The total debt of the hardware & equipment company was at the end of 2015 2,9 billion dollars, which equals around 39,36 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2016 the American company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 15. So investors paid 15 times the company's 2015's EPS. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the hardware & equipment company equaled around 17,36 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 538 million stocks listed.

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