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Gentex Corp

The past year was a good investment year for Gentex Corp investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 29 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 50 percent. Gentex Corp's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 1,1 billion dollars and 1,54 billion dollars. Gentex Corp's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 164,67 million dollars and 318,47 million dollars.

Gentex Corp's core business is the car services sector. The global automobile companies gained over the past 10 years on average 93 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 90 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 93 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Gentex Corp's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 1,43 percent per year.

Quite a lot of debt Gentex Corp

At the end of 2015 the automobile company's balance sheet was worth 2,15 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 426,15 million dollars. This is around 19,83 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2015 the automobile company's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 17. So the stock' value was 17 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 market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the automobile company equaled around 4,58 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 293,1 million stocks listed.

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