Loblaw Companies Limited Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation
| L Stock | CAD 181.70 0.25 0.14% |
Given the investment horizon of 90 days and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Loblaw Companies Limited is 'Hold'. The recommendation algorithm takes into account all of Loblaw Companies' available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site.
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Time Horizon
Risk Tolerance
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Hold
Market Performance | Insignificant | Details | |
Volatility | Very steady | Details | |
Hype Condition | Low key | Details | |
Current Valuation | Fairly Valued | Details | |
Odds Of Distress | Low | Details | |
Economic Sensitivity | Slowly supersedes the market | Details | |
Analyst Consensus | Not Available | Details | |
Reporting Quality (M-Score) | Inapplicable | Details |
Loblaw Companies Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions
| Loblaw Companies has high financial leverage indicating that it may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations | |
| About 54.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by corporate insiders | |
| Latest headline from news.google.com: Where Will Loblaw Stock Be in 135 Years - MSN |
Loblaw Companies Returns Distribution Density
The distribution of Loblaw Companies' historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Loblaw Companies' future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Loblaw Companies daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Loblaw Companies Limited price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Loblaw Companies returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Loblaw Companies.
| Mean Return | 0.09 | Value At Risk | -1.93 | Potential Upside | 1.72 | Standard Deviation | 1.10 |
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 Loblaw Companies 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.
Loblaw Companies Cash Flow Accounts
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Change In Cash | 68M | 535M | 308M | (368M) | (120M) | (114M) | |
| Free Cash Flow | 2.8B | 4.0B | 3.6B | 3.2B | 3.6B | 3.8B | |
| Depreciation | 2.5B | 2.6B | 2.7B | 2.8B | 2.9B | 3.1B | |
| Other Non Cash Items | 725M | 780M | 776M | 239M | (57M) | (54.2M) | |
| Dividends Paid | 460M | 580M | 484M | 529M | 562M | 288.3M | |
| Capital Expenditures | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.6B | 2.1B | 1.2B | |
| Net Income | 1.1B | 1.2B | 2.0B | 2.0B | 2.2B | 2.3B | |
| End Period Cash Flow | 1.1B | 1.7B | 2.0B | 1.6B | 1.5B | 1.1B | |
| Investments | (289M) | (1.4B) | (164M) | (2.4B) | (1.8B) | (1.8B) | |
| Net Borrowings | (1.5B) | (1.2B) | (1.0B) | (213M) | (191.7M) | (182.1M) | |
| Change To Netincome | 678M | 937M | 500M | 1.0B | 936.9M | 646.1M |
Loblaw Companies 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 Loblaw Companies or Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail 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 Loblaw Companies' 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 Loblaw 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 | 0.05 | |
β | Beta against Dow Jones | 0.25 | |
σ | Overall volatility | 1.12 | |
Ir | Information ratio | -0.04 |
Loblaw Companies Volatility Alert
Loblaw Companies Limited has relatively low volatility with skewness of -0.68 and kurtosis of 0.64. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Loblaw Companies' stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Loblaw Companies' 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.Loblaw Companies Fundamentals Vs Peers
Comparing Loblaw Companies' 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 Loblaw Companies' direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Loblaw Companies and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Loblaw Companies or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Loblaw Companies' fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Loblaw Companies by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
| Better Than Average | Worse Than Average | Compare Loblaw Companies to competition |
| Fundamentals | Loblaw Companies | Peer Average |
| Return On Equity | 0.19 | -0.31 |
| Return On Asset | 0.0589 | -0.14 |
| Profit Margin | 0.04 % | (1.27) % |
| Operating Margin | 0.07 % | (5.51) % |
| Current Valuation | 72.15 B | 16.62 B |
| Shares Outstanding | 302.62 M | 571.82 M |
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 53.90 % | 10.09 % |
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 20.69 % | 39.21 % |
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 1.33 M | 4.71 M |
| Price To Earning | 43.59 X | 28.72 X |
| Price To Book | 4.94 X | 9.51 X |
| Price To Sales | 0.91 X | 11.42 X |
| Revenue | 59.53 B | 9.43 B |
| Gross Profit | 17.98 B | 27.38 B |
| EBITDA | 6.64 B | 3.9 B |
| Net Income | 2.19 B | 570.98 M |
| Cash And Equivalents | 584 M | 2.7 B |
| Cash Per Share | 2.72 X | 5.01 X |
| Total Debt | 18.17 B | 5.32 B |
| Debt To Equity | 145.00 % | 48.70 % |
| Current Ratio | 1.25 X | 2.16 X |
| Book Value Per Share | 36.08 X | 1.93 K |
| Cash Flow From Operations | 5.65 B | 971.22 M |
| Short Ratio | 4.61 X | 4.00 X |
| Earnings Per Share | 7.18 X | 3.12 X |
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 3.15 X | 4.89 X |
| Target Price | 190.8 | |
| Number Of Employees | 220 K | 18.84 K |
| Beta | 0.16 | -0.15 |
| Market Capitalization | 55.06 B | 19.03 B |
| Total Asset | 38.98 B | 29.47 B |
| Retained Earnings | 4.82 B | 9.33 B |
| Working Capital | 2.73 B | 1.48 B |
Loblaw Companies Market Momentum
Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Loblaw . 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.
| Accumulation Distribution | 1574.61 | |||
| Daily Balance Of Power | (0.14) | |||
| Rate Of Daily Change | 1.0 | |||
| Day Median Price | 181.74 | |||
| Day Typical Price | 181.73 | |||
| Price Action Indicator | (0.17) | |||
| Period Momentum Indicator | (0.25) | |||
| Relative Strength Index | 73.72 |
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