Schneider Electric

The past year was a profitable year for the Schneider Electric investors

Over the past year the company' stock gained around 27 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 67,59 percent. Schneider Electric's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively stable and moved between 23,95 billion euros and 26,64 billion euros. Schneider Electric's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 1,88 billion euros and 1,39 billion euros.

Schneider Electric's head office is located in Rueil Malmaison. The core activities of Schneider Electric are in the diversified industrials sector. Over the past 10 years the global diversified companies gained around 53 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 240 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a plus of 53 percent.

Schneider Electric paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 9,36 percent.

Schneider Electric financed with a quite low debt position

At the end of 2015 the diversified company's balance sheet was worth 42,58 billion euros. Last year the total debt of the company was 21,73 billion euros. This equals around 51,03 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Schneider Electric's price/earnings-ratio equaled 16. So investors paid for 1 stock 16 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the French stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the French company's market capitalization equaled around 29,1 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the French company had around 568,35 million stocks listed.

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