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Royal Gold

The past year yielded positive returns for Royal Gold investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were profitable period for the investors in Royal Gold, the stock gained around 72 percent. Over the past 5 years Royal Gold' stock lost at around 11 percent in value. Royal Gold's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 263,05 million dollars and 278,02 million dollars. Royal Gold's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 77,3 million dollars and 52,68 million dollars.

The core activities of Royal Gold are in the mining sector. The global mining companies gained around 72 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 72 percent.

Royal Gold paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Royal Gold's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 3,42 percent annually.

Royal Gold financed with lots of debt

Last year the balance sheet of the American company was worth 2,93 billion dollars. The total debt was around 572,31 million dollars. This is 19,56 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Royal Gold's price/earnings-ratio equaled 54. So investors paid for 1 stock 54 times the earnings per share of 2015. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the mining company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 2,45 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 65,01 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

All the annual reports of Royal Gold are available here. More information about Royal Gold can be found it's website. .