Great West Lifeco Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation
| GWO Stock | CAD 51.74 0.28 0.54% |
Assuming the 90 days trading horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Great West Lifeco is 'Strong Buy'. The recommendation algorithm takes into account all of Great West's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site.
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Time Horizon
Risk Tolerance
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Strong Buy
Market Performance | OK | Details | |
Volatility | Very steady | Details | |
Hype Condition | Low key | Details | |
Current Valuation | Undervalued | Details | |
Odds Of Distress | Very Low | Details | |
Economic Sensitivity | Barely shadows the market | Details | |
Analyst Consensus | Not Available | Details | |
Reporting Quality (M-Score) | Inapplicable | Details |
Great West Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions
| About 71.0% of the company shares are held by company insiders | |
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Great West Returns Distribution Density
The distribution of Great West's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Great West's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Great West daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Great West Lifeco price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Great West returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Great West.
| Mean Return | 0.14 | Value At Risk | -1.74 | Potential Upside | 1.19 | Standard Deviation | 1.56 |
Return Density |
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Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Great West 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.
Great West Cash Flow Accounts
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (projected) | ||
| Change In Cash | 3.3B | (1.9B) | 1.2B | 827M | 2.6B | 2.7B | |
| Free Cash Flow | 9.6B | 10.4B | 7.0B | 5.2B | 4.8B | 4.4B | |
| Other Non Cash Items | (6.1B) | 1.7B | 22.8B | 4.2B | 1.5B | 1.5B | |
| Dividends Paid | 1.8B | 1.8B | 2.0B | 2.1B | 2.2B | 1.2B | |
| Net Income | 3.1B | 3.9B | 3.8B | 2.9B | 4.1B | 2.3B | |
| End Period Cash Flow | 7.9B | 6.1B | 7.3B | 8.1B | 10.7B | 11.2B | |
| Depreciation | 438M | 523M | 558M | 505M | 580.8M | 609.8M | |
| Investments | (8.2B) | (8.7B) | (5.5B) | (119M) | (408M) | (428.4M) | |
| Net Borrowings | (259M) | 3.8B | (768M) | 1.3B | 1.5B | 1.6B | |
| Change To Netincome | (7.0B) | (7.4B) | 2.1B | 23.2B | 26.6B | 28.0B |
Great West 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 Great West or Insurance 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 Great West'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 Great 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 | 0.15 | |
β | Beta against Dow Jones | 0.16 | |
σ | Overall volatility | 1.56 | |
Ir | Information ratio | 0.16 |
Great West Volatility Alert
Great West Lifeco has relatively low volatility with skewness of 4.23 and kurtosis of 28.29. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Great West's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Great West's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.Great West Fundamentals Vs Peers
Comparing Great West'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 Great West's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Great West and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Great West or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Great West's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Great West by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
| Better Than Average | Worse Than Average | Compare Great West to competition |
| Fundamentals | Great West | Peer Average |
| Return On Equity | 0.14 | -0.31 |
| Return On Asset | 0.0077 | -0.14 |
| Profit Margin | 0.12 % | (1.27) % |
| Operating Margin | 0.45 % | (5.51) % |
| Current Valuation | 51.35 B | 16.62 B |
| Shares Outstanding | 932.11 M | 571.82 M |
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 70.65 % | 10.09 % |
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 11.21 % | 39.21 % |
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 9.19 M | 4.71 M |
| Price To Earning | 10.16 X | 28.72 X |
| Price To Book | 1.79 X | 9.51 X |
| Price To Sales | 1.39 X | 11.42 X |
| Revenue | 17.22 B | 9.43 B |
| Gross Profit | 16.88 B | 27.38 B |
| EBITDA | 9.82 B | 3.9 B |
| Net Income | 4.07 B | 570.98 M |
| Cash And Equivalents | 135.15 B | 2.7 B |
| Cash Per Share | 145.05 X | 5.01 X |
| Total Debt | 523 M | 5.32 B |
| Debt To Equity | 0.32 % | 48.70 % |
| Current Ratio | 26.00 X | 2.16 X |
| Book Value Per Share | 28.77 X | 1.93 K |
| Cash Flow From Operations | 4.75 B | 971.22 M |
| Short Ratio | 2.89 X | 4.00 X |
| Earnings Per Share | 4.29 X | 3.12 X |
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 1.81 X | 4.89 X |
| Target Price | 52.95 | |
| Number Of Employees | 33.25 K | 18.84 K |
| Beta | 0.81 | -0.15 |
| Market Capitalization | 48.23 B | 19.03 B |
| Total Asset | 802.16 B | 29.47 B |
| Retained Earnings | 17.27 B | 9.33 B |
| Annual Yield | 0.05 % |
Great West Market Momentum
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