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United Bankshares

The past year was a good investment year for United Bankshares investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 24 percent. Over the period 2011-2016 the stock rose a massive 66,91 percent. United Bankshares's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 75,61 million dollars and 137,96 million dollars.

United Bankshares is mostly active in the financial services sector. The global financial companies gained around 15 percent over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 38 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 15 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 6,27 percent.

Healthy financed: not so much debt United Bankshares

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of around 12,58 billion dollars. 10,87 billion dollars (86,38 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. At the end of 2015 the financial company's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 19. So the stock' value was 19 times the 2015' earnings per share. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the financial company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 2,53 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 69,33 million stocks listed.

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