Canadian Utilities Limited Stock EBITDA
| CU Stock | CAD 35.35 0.12 0.34% |
Canadian Utilities Limited fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Canadian Utilities' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Canadian Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Canadian Utilities' intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Canadian Utilities stock.
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Canadian Utilities Limited Company EBITDA Analysis
Canadian Utilities' EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. It is a measure of a company operating cash flow based on data from the company income statement and is a very good way to compare companies within industries or across different sectors. However, unlike Operating Cash Flow, EBITDA does not include the effects of changes in working capital.
Current Canadian Utilities EBITDA | 1.67 B |
Most of Canadian Utilities' fundamental indicators, such as EBITDA, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Canadian Utilities Limited is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, EBITDA is calculated by adding back each of the excluded items to the post-tax profit, and can be used to compare companies with very different capital structures.
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According to the company disclosure, Canadian Utilities Limited reported earnings before interest,tax, depreciation and amortization of 1.67 B. This is 68.62% higher than that of the Electric Utilities sector and significantly higher than that of the Utilities industry. The ebitda for all Canada stocks is 57.21% higher than that of the company.
Canadian EBITDA Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Canadian Utilities' direct or indirect competition against its EBITDA to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Canadian Utilities could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Canadian Utilities by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Canadian Utilities is currently under evaluation in ebitda category among its peers.
Canadian Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.0688 | ||||
| Return On Asset | 0.0255 | ||||
| Profit Margin | 0.13 % | ||||
| Operating Margin | 0.31 % | ||||
| Current Valuation | 21.92 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 204.97 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 37.59 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 14.66 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 2.16 M | ||||
| Price To Earning | 29.45 X | ||||
| Price To Book | 1.79 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 1.93 X | ||||
| Revenue | 3.74 B | ||||
| Gross Profit | 2.6 B | ||||
| EBITDA | 1.67 B | ||||
| Net Income | 480 M | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 911 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 2.76 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 325 M | ||||
| Debt To Equity | 1.39 % | ||||
| Current Ratio | 1.51 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | 19.66 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 1.92 B | ||||
| Short Ratio | 4.37 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 1.48 X | ||||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 3.47 X | ||||
| Target Price | 38.58 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 9.08 K | ||||
| Beta | 0.65 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 7.22 B | ||||
| Total Asset | 23.79 B | ||||
| Retained Earnings | 4 B | ||||
| Working Capital | 119 M | ||||
| Current Asset | 1.06 B | ||||
| Current Liabilities | 799 M | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.05 % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 4.72 % | ||||
| Net Asset | 23.79 B | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 1.81 |
About Canadian Utilities Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Canadian Utilities Limited's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Canadian Utilities using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Canadian Utilities Limited based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.
Pair Trading with Canadian Utilities
One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Canadian Utilities position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Canadian Utilities will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving against Canadian Stock
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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Canadian Utilities could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Canadian Utilities when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Canadian Utilities - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Canadian Utilities Limited to buy it.
The correlation of Canadian Utilities is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Canadian Utilities moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Canadian Utilities moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Canadian Utilities can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.Other Information on Investing in Canadian Stock
Canadian Utilities financial ratios help investors to determine whether Canadian Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Canadian with respect to the benefits of owning Canadian Utilities security.