Richelieu Hardware Stock Beta

RCH Stock  CAD 40.66  0.31  0.76%   
Richelieu Hardware fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Richelieu Hardware's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Richelieu Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Richelieu Hardware'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 Richelieu Hardware stock.
  
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Richelieu Hardware Company Beta Analysis

Richelieu Hardware's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.

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Current Richelieu Hardware Beta

    
  0.95  
Most of Richelieu Hardware's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, 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, Richelieu Hardware is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.

Richelieu Beta Driver Correlations

Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Richelieu Hardware is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Richelieu Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Beta. Since Richelieu Hardware'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 Richelieu Hardware'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 Richelieu Hardware's interrelated accounts and indicators.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Richelieu Hardware has a Beta of 0.945. This is 12.5% higher than that of the Household Durables sector and significantly higher than that of the Consumer Discretionary industry. The beta for all Canada stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

Richelieu Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Richelieu Hardware's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Richelieu Hardware could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Richelieu Hardware by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Richelieu Hardware is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
Richelieu Hardware returns are very sensitive to returns on the market. As the market goes up or down, Richelieu Hardware is expected to follow.

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About Richelieu Hardware Fundamental Analysis

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

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 Richelieu Hardware 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 Richelieu Hardware will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Richelieu Hardware could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Richelieu Hardware 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 Richelieu Hardware - 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 Richelieu Hardware to buy it.
The correlation of Richelieu Hardware 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 Richelieu Hardware moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Richelieu Hardware 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 Richelieu Hardware 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 Richelieu Stock

Richelieu Hardware financial ratios help investors to determine whether Richelieu 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 Richelieu with respect to the benefits of owning Richelieu Hardware security.