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Nielsen Holdings

The past year was a good year for Nielsen Holdings investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a bad period for the investors. The stock lost almost 5 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 52,17 percent. Nielsen Holdings's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 5,61 billion dollars and 6,17 billion dollars. Nielsen Holdings's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 82 million dollars and 578 million dollars.

The core activities of Nielsen Holdings are in the support services sector. Between 2006 and 2016 the global support companies gained around 20 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 17 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 20 percent.

Over the past 5 years the American company paid out dividends. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 2,76 percent.

Nielsen Holdings financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 15,3 billion dollars. Last year the total debt of the company was 10,87 billion dollars. This equals around 71,03 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Nielsen Holdings's price/earnings-ratio equaled 25. So investors paid for 1 stock 25 times the earnings per share of 2015. Many analysts 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 support company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 16,55 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 362,34 million stocks were listed.

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