Great West Lifeco Stock Total Debt

GWO Stock  CAD 53.74  0.33  0.62%   
Great West Lifeco fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Great-West Lifeco's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Great-West Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Great-West Lifeco'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 Great-West Lifeco stock.
  
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Great West Lifeco Company Total Debt Analysis

Great-West Lifeco's Total Debt refers to the amount of long term interest-bearing liabilities that a company carries on its balance sheet. That may include bonds sold to the public, notes written to banks or capital leases. Typically, debt can help a company magnify its earnings, but the burden of interest and principal payments will eventually prevent the firm from borrow excessively.

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Current Great-West Lifeco Total Debt

    
  523 M  
Most of Great-West Lifeco's fundamental indicators, such as Total Debt, 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, Great West Lifeco is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In most industries, total debt may also include the current portion of long-term debt. Since debt terms vary widely from one company to another, simply comparing outstanding debt obligations between different companies may not be adequate. It is usually meant to compare total debt amounts between companies that operate within the same sector.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Great West Lifeco has a Total Debt of 523 M. This is 98.7% lower than that of the Insurance sector and significantly higher than that of the Financials industry. The total debt for all Canada stocks is 90.16% higher than that of the company.

Great-West Total Debt Peer Comparison

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

Great-West Fundamentals

About Great-West Lifeco Fundamental Analysis

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

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 Great-West Lifeco 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 Great-West Lifeco 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 Great-West Lifeco could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Great-West Lifeco 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 Great-West Lifeco - 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 Great West Lifeco to buy it.
The correlation of Great-West Lifeco 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 Great-West Lifeco moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Great West Lifeco 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 Great-West Lifeco 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 Great-West Stock

Great-West Lifeco financial ratios help investors to determine whether Great-West 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 Great-West with respect to the benefits of owning Great-West Lifeco security.