Fairfax Fin Hld Preferred Stock Debt To Equity

FFH-PG Preferred Stock  CAD 21.89  0.02  0.09%   
Fairfax Fin Hld fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Fairfax Fin's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Fairfax Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Fairfax Fin's 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 Fairfax Fin preferred stock.
  
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Fairfax Fin Hld Company Debt To Equity Analysis

Fairfax Fin's Debt to Equity is calculated by dividing the Total Debt of a company by its Equity. If the debt exceeds equity of a company, then the creditors have more stakes in a firm than the stockholders. In other words, Debt to Equity ratio provides analysts with insights about composition of both equity and debt, and its influence on the valuation of the company.

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Current Fairfax Fin Debt To Equity

    
  45.30 %  
Most of Fairfax Fin's fundamental indicators, such as Debt To Equity, 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, Fairfax Fin Hld is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
High Debt to Equity ratio typically indicates that a firm has been borrowing aggressively to finance its growth and as a result may experience a burden of additional interest expense. This may reduce earnings or future growth. On the other hand a small D/E ratio may indicate that a company is not taking enough advantage from financial leverage. Debt to Equity ratio measures how the company is leveraging borrowing against the capital invested by the owners.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, Fairfax Fin Hld has a Debt To Equity of 45.3%. This is 37.94% higher than that of the Financial Services sector and 32.5% lower than that of the Insurance - Property & Casualty industry. The debt to equity for all Canada preferred stocks is 6.98% higher than that of the company.

Fairfax Debt To Equity Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Fairfax Fin's direct or indirect competition against its Debt To Equity to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Fairfax Fin could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Fairfax Fin by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Fairfax Fin is rated # 2 in debt to equity category among its peers.

Fairfax Fundamentals

About Fairfax Fin Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Fairfax Fin Hld's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Fairfax Fin using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Fairfax Fin Hld 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.
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Pair Trading with Fairfax Fin

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 Fairfax Fin 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 Fairfax Fin will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Fairfax Preferred Stock

  0.99FFH-PF Fairfax FinancialPairCorr
  0.93FFH-PD Fairfax FinancialPairCorr
  0.98FFH-PH Fairfax FinancialPairCorr
  0.97FFH-PJ Fairfax FinancialPairCorr
  0.85FFH-PM Fairfax FinancialPairCorr

Moving against Fairfax Preferred Stock

  0.75PFE Pfizer Inc CDRPairCorr
  0.65ELF-PH E L FinancialPairCorr
  0.59IFC-PE Intact Financial CorpPairCorr
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Fairfax Fin could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Fairfax Fin 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 Fairfax Fin - 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 Fairfax Fin Hld to buy it.
The correlation of Fairfax Fin 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 Fairfax Fin moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Fairfax Fin Hld 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 Fairfax Fin 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.
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Other Information on Investing in Fairfax Preferred Stock

Fairfax Fin financial ratios help investors to determine whether Fairfax Preferred 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 Fairfax with respect to the benefits of owning Fairfax Fin security.