Garmin

The past year gave good returns for Garmin investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 39 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 24,62 percent. Garmin's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 2,72 billion dollars and 2,82 billion dollars. Garmin's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 520,9 million dollars and 456,23 million dollars.

Garmin's headquarter is located in Olathe. Garmin's core business is the navigation systems sector. Clifton A. Pemble leads the company as CEO. Doug Boessen runs the company as a CFO. The global navigation producers lost around 16 percent over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 327 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a plus of 16 percent.

Garmin paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Garmin's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 9,11 percent annually.

Garmin' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the navigation producer's balance sheet was worth 4,5 billion dollars. The total debt of the navigation producer was at the end of 2015 1,15 billion dollars, which equals around 25,65 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2015 the navigation producer's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 22. So the stock' value was 22 times the 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield 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 navigation producer equaled around 6,92 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 189,72 million stocks were listed.

All Garmin's financial reports are located here. More information about Garmin can be found it's website. .