Canfor Pulp Products Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

CFX Stock  CAD 0.91  0.05  5.81%   
Assuming the 90 days trading horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Canfor Pulp Products is 'Strong Sell'. The recommendation algorithm takes into account all of Canfor Pulp's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell Canfor PulpBuy Canfor Pulp
Strong Sell

Market Performance

Very WeakDetails

Volatility

Extremely DangerousDetails

Hype Condition

StaleDetails

Current Valuation

OvervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

Below AverageDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Almost neglects market trendsDetails

Analyst Consensus

Not AvailableDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

InapplicableDetails
For the selected time horizon Canfor Pulp Products has a Mean Deviation of 2.61, Standard Deviation of 3.44 and Variance of 11.84
We provide trade advice to complement the prevailing expert consensus on Canfor Pulp Products. Our dynamic recommendation engine uses a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the company's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available at the time. To make sure Canfor Pulp is not overpriced, please confirm all Canfor Pulp Products fundamentals, including its price to earning, cash per share, price to earnings to growth, as well as the relationship between the gross profit and book value per share .

Canfor Pulp Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Canfor Pulp Products generated a negative expected return over the last 90 days
Canfor Pulp Products has some characteristics of a very speculative penny stock
Canfor Pulp Products has high historical volatility and very poor performance
The company reported the revenue of 875.5 M. Net Loss for the year was (96.1 M) with profit before overhead, payroll, taxes, and interest of 218.8 M.
About 55.0% of the company shares are held by company insiders

Canfor Pulp Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Canfor Pulp's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Canfor Pulp's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Canfor Pulp daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Canfor Pulp Products price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Canfor Pulp returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Canfor Pulp.
Mean Return
-0.2
Value At Risk
-6.19
Potential Upside
4.71
Standard Deviation
3.44
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Canfor Pulp historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Canfor Pulp Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Canfor Pulp or Paper & Forest Products sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Canfor Pulp's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Canfor stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
-0.19
β
Beta against Dow Jones-0.23
σ
Overall volatility
3.31
Ir
Information ratio -0.09

Canfor Pulp Volatility Alert

Canfor Pulp Products exhibits very low volatility with skewness of -0.43 and kurtosis of 0.55. Canfor Pulp Products is a potential penny stock. Although Canfor Pulp may be in fact a good instrument to invest, many penny stocks are speculative in nature and are subject to artificial price hype. Please make sure you totally understand the upside potential and downside risk of investing in Canfor Pulp Products. We encourage investors to look for signals such as email spams, message board hypes, claims of breakthroughs, volume upswings, sudden news releases, promotions that are not reported, or demotions released before SEC filings. Please also check biographies and work history of current and past company officers before investing in high volatility instruments, penny stocks, or equities with microcap classification. You can indeed make money on Canfor instrument if you perfectly time your entry and exit. However, remember that penny stocks that have been the subject of artificial hype usually unable to maintain their increased share price for more than just a few days. The price of a promoted high volatility instrument will almost always revert back. The only way to increase shareholder value is through legitimate performance backed up by solid fundamentals.

Canfor Pulp Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Canfor Pulp's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Canfor Pulp's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Canfor Pulp and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Canfor Pulp or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Canfor Pulp's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Canfor Pulp by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Canfor Pulp to competition
FundamentalsCanfor PulpPeer Average
Return On Equity-0.68-0.31
Return On Asset-0.0375-0.14
Profit Margin(0.21) %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.01 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation124.74 M16.62 B
Shares Outstanding65.23 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders55.01 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions5.42 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted122.66 K4.71 M
Price To Earning171.02 X28.72 X
Price To Book0.31 X9.51 X
Price To Sales0.07 X11.42 X
Revenue875.5 M9.43 B
Gross Profit218.8 M27.38 B
EBITDA(34.9 M)3.9 B
Net Income(96.1 M)570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents14.7 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share0.47 X5.01 X
Total Debt109.2 M5.32 B
Debt To Equity0.1 %48.70 %
Current Ratio2.36 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share2.66 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations36.3 M971.22 M
Short Ratio3.76 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share(2.73) X3.12 X
Price To Earnings To Growth9.86 X4.89 X
Target Price1.44
Number Of Employees1 K18.84 K
Beta1.33-0.15
Market Capitalization56.1 M19.03 B
Total Asset739.9 M29.47 B
Retained Earnings(143.7 M)9.33 B
Working Capital(16 M)1.48 B

Canfor Pulp Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Canfor . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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