Fairfax Financial Holdings Stock Fundamentals

FFH Stock  CAD 1,974  1.80  0.09%   
Fairfax Financial Holdings fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Fairfax Financial's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Fairfax Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Fairfax Financial'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 Financial stock.
At this time, Fairfax Financial's EBIT is very stable compared to the past year. As of the 29th of November 2024, EBITDA is likely to grow to about 6.4 B, while Selling General Administrative is likely to drop about 408.7 M.
  
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Fairfax Financial Holdings Company Profit Margin Analysis

Fairfax Financial's Profit Margin measures overall efficiency of a company and shows its ability to withstand competition as well as defend against adverse conditions such as rising costs, falling prices, decline in sales or management distress. Profit margin tells investors how well the company executes on its overall pricing strategies as well as how effective the company in controlling its costs.

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Current Fairfax Financial Profit Margin

    
  0.12 %  
Most of Fairfax Financial's fundamental indicators, such as Profit Margin, 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 Financial Holdings is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.

Fairfax Profit Margin Driver Correlations

Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Fairfax Financial is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Fairfax Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Profit Margin. Since Fairfax Financial's main accounts across its financial reports are all linked and dependent on each other, it is essential to analyze all possible correlations between related accounts. However, instead of reviewing all of Fairfax Financial's historical financial statements, investors can examine the correlated drivers to determine its overall health. This can be effectively done using a conventional correlation matrix of Fairfax Financial's interrelated accounts and indicators.
In a nutshell, Profit Margin indicator shows the amount of money the company makes from total sales or revenue. It can provide a good insight into companies in the same sector, as well as help to identify trends of a company from year to year.
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Fairfax Pretax Profit Margin

Pretax Profit Margin

0.19

At this time, Fairfax Financial's Pretax Profit Margin is very stable compared to the past year.
Based on the latest financial disclosure, Fairfax Financial Holdings has a Profit Margin of 0.1186%. This is 98.98% lower than that of the Insurance sector and significantly higher than that of the Financials industry. The profit margin for all Canada stocks is 109.34% lower than that of the firm.

Fairfax Financial Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Fairfax Financial's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Fairfax Financial value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Fairfax Financial competition to find correlations between indicators driving Fairfax Financial's intrinsic value. More Info.
Fairfax Financial Holdings is one of the top stocks in return on equity category among its peers. It is rated # 2 in return on asset category among its peers reporting about  0.25  of Return On Asset per Return On Equity. The ratio of Return On Equity to Return On Asset for Fairfax Financial Holdings is roughly  4.06 . At this time, Fairfax Financial's Return On Equity is very stable compared to the past year. Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all model that can be used if you cannot value Fairfax Financial by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. This model doesn't attempt to find an intrinsic value for Fairfax Financial's Stock. Still, instead, it compares the stock's price multiples to a benchmark or nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued.

Fairfax Profit Margin Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Fairfax Financial's direct or indirect competition against its Profit Margin to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Fairfax Financial could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Fairfax Financial by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Fairfax Financial is currently under evaluation in profit margin category among its peers.

Fairfax Financial Current Valuation Drivers

We derive many important indicators used in calculating different scores of Fairfax Financial from analyzing Fairfax Financial's financial statements. These drivers represent accounts that assess Fairfax Financial's ability to generate profits relative to its revenue, operating costs, and shareholders' equity. Below are some of Fairfax Financial's important valuation drivers and their relationship over time.
201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Market Cap12.6B11.8B13.5B15.0B23.3B24.5B
Enterprise Value17.0B4.3B(4.1B)12.6B28.3B29.8B

Fairfax Financial ESG Sustainability

Some studies have found that companies with high sustainability scores are getting higher valuations than competitors with lower social-engagement activities. While most ESG disclosures are voluntary and do not directly affect the long term financial condition, Fairfax Financial's sustainability indicators can be used to identify proper investment strategies using environmental, social, and governance scores that are crucial to Fairfax Financial's managers, analysts, and investors.
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Fairfax Fundamentals

About Fairfax Financial Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Fairfax Financial Holdings's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Fairfax Financial using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Fairfax Financial Holdings 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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Last ReportedProjected for Next Year
Total Revenue25.8 B27.1 B
Cost Of Revenue12.5 B13.2 B
Sales General And Administrative To Revenue 0.01  0.01 
Capex To Revenue 0.02  0.02 
Revenue Per Share1.3 K1.3 K
Ebit Per Revenue 0.99  1.04 

Pair Trading with Fairfax Financial

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

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Fairfax Financial 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 Financial 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 Financial - 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 Financial Holdings to buy it.
The correlation of Fairfax Financial 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 Financial moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Fairfax Financial 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 Financial 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 Stock

Fairfax Financial financial ratios help investors to determine whether Fairfax 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 Financial security.