Air Canada Stock Buy, Sell, or Hold - The Motley Fool Canada

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We analyze Air Canada's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Air Canada using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Air Canada 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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Air Canada financial ratios help investors to determine whether Air 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 Air with respect to the benefits of owning Air Canada security.