Thales

Thales is active in the diversified industrials sector. Between 2006 and 2016 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.

The past year was a good year for Thales investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were profitable period for the investors in Thales, the stock gained around 33 percent. Over the period 2011-2016 the stock rose a massive 291,17 percent. Thales's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 14,16 billion euros and 14,06 billion euros. Thales's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 458,1 million euros and 812,7 million euros.

The French company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the Thales stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 4,74 percent over the past 5 years.

Thales financed with a quite low debt position

Last year the balance sheet of the French company was worth 21,56 billion euros. The total debt of the diversified company was at the end of 2015 16,91 billion euros, which equals around 78,45 percent of the total balance sheet. Last year the diversified company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 12. So the investors valued the stock at 12 times 2015' earnings per share. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the French stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the diversified company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 14,16 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the French company had around 208,11 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

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