Metro Inc Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation
| MRU Stock | CAD 93.32 0.32 0.34% |
Assuming the 90 days trading horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Metro Inc is 'Hold'. The recommendation algorithm takes into account all of Metro's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site.
Check out Metro Analyst Recommendation to compare Macroaxis Buy or Sell Recommendation with the current analyst consensus. To check ratings for multiple equity instruments, please use the Instant Ratings tool. In addition, we conduct extensive research on individual companies such as Metro and provide practical buy, sell, or hold advice based on investors' investing horizon and their risk tolerance towards Metro Inc. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors.
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Time Horizon
Risk Tolerance
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Hold
Market Performance | Weak | Details | |
Volatility | Very steady | Details | |
Hype Condition | Low key | Details | |
Current Valuation | Fairly Valued | Details | |
Odds Of Distress | Very Low | Details | |
Economic Sensitivity | Slowly supersedes the market | Details | |
Analyst Consensus | Not Available | Details | |
Reporting Quality (M-Score) | Inapplicable | Details |
Metro Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions
| Latest headline from news.google.com: Metro Stocks Overvalued by Analyst Consensus on TSX - The Globe and Mail |
Metro Returns Distribution Density
The distribution of Metro's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Metro's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Metro daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Metro Inc price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Metro returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Metro.
| Mean Return | 0.01 | Value At Risk | -1.72 | Potential Upside | 1.33 | 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 Metro 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.
Metro Cash Flow Accounts
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (projected) | ||
| Change In Cash | 4.3M | (432.4M) | 16.1M | (100K) | (90K) | (94.5K) | |
| Free Cash Flow | 984M | 840.3M | 883.6M | 1.1B | 1.3B | 1.3B | |
| Depreciation | 478.3M | 503.3M | 525.2M | 570.4M | 656.0M | 688.8M | |
| Other Non Cash Items | 133.5M | (88.9M) | 122.6M | (99.3M) | (114.2M) | (108.5M) | |
| Dividends Paid | 240.1M | 257.9M | 275M | 294.6M | 338.8M | 355.7M | |
| Capital Expenditures | 599.3M | 621.1M | 679.9M | 579.7M | 666.7M | 700.0M | |
| Net Income | 1.1B | 1.2B | 1.0B | 1.3B | 1.4B | 1.5B | |
| End Period Cash Flow | 445.8M | 13.4M | 29.5M | 29.4M | 33.8M | 32.1M | |
| Investments | (1.1M) | (477.8M) | (572.5M) | (456.4M) | (410.8M) | (431.3M) | |
| Net Borrowings | (7.4M) | (268.1M) | (263.3M) | (554.3M) | (498.9M) | (473.9M) | |
| Change To Netincome | (151.8M) | 248.5M | 118.1M | 227.2M | 261.3M | 274.3M |
Metro 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 Metro 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 Metro'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 Metro 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 | 0.03 | |
β | Beta against Dow Jones | 0.26 | |
σ | Overall volatility | 1.13 | |
Ir | Information ratio | 0.10 |
Metro Volatility Alert
Metro Inc has relatively low volatility with skewness of -0.06 and kurtosis of 2.7. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Metro'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 Metro'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.Metro Fundamentals Vs Peers
Comparing Metro'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 Metro's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Metro and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Metro or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Metro's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Metro by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
| Better Than Average | Worse Than Average | Compare Metro to competition |
| Fundamentals | Metro | Peer Average |
| Return On Equity | 0.14 | -0.31 |
| Return On Asset | 0.0624 | -0.14 |
| Profit Margin | 0.04 % | (1.27) % |
| Operating Margin | 0.07 % | (5.51) % |
| Current Valuation | 25.09 B | 16.62 B |
| Shares Outstanding | 221.38 M | 571.82 M |
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 0.15 % | 10.09 % |
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 44.74 % | 39.21 % |
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 1.16 M | 4.71 M |
| Price To Earning | 21.44 X | 28.72 X |
| Price To Book | 2.90 X | 9.51 X |
| Price To Sales | 0.97 X | 11.42 X |
| Revenue | 21.22 B | 9.43 B |
| Gross Profit | 4.21 B | 27.38 B |
| EBITDA | 1.97 B | 3.9 B |
| Net Income | 1.25 B | 570.98 M |
| Cash And Equivalents | 13.4 M | 2.7 B |
| Cash Per Share | 1.46 X | 5.01 X |
| Total Debt | 4.31 B | 5.32 B |
| Debt To Equity | 0.78 % | 48.70 % |
| Current Ratio | 1.35 X | 2.16 X |
| Book Value Per Share | 32.14 X | 1.93 K |
| Cash Flow From Operations | 1.68 B | 971.22 M |
| Short Ratio | 2.78 X | 4.00 X |
| Earnings Per Share | 4.28 X | 3.12 X |
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 3.46 X | 4.89 X |
| Target Price | 93.18 | |
| Number Of Employees | 97.87 K | 18.84 K |
| Beta | 0.083 | -0.15 |
| Market Capitalization | 20.66 B | 19.03 B |
| Total Asset | 14.14 B | 29.47 B |
| Retained Earnings | 5.44 B | 9.33 B |
| Working Capital | 188.4 M | 1.48 B |
Metro Market Momentum
Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Metro . 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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