Great-West Lifeco Ownership

GWO-PT Preferred Stock  CAD 22.50  0.09  0.40%   
Great West Lifeco has a total of 988.38 Million outstanding shares. Roughly 81.36 (percent) of Great-West Lifeco outstanding shares are held by general public with 18.64 pct. by outside corporations. Please note that no matter how many assets the company holds, if the real value of the firm is less than the current market value, you may not be able to make money on it.
Some institutional investors establish a significant position in preferred stocks such as Great-West Lifeco in order to find ways to drive up its value. Retail investors, on the other hand, need to know that institutional holders can own millions of shares of Great-West Lifeco, and when they decide to sell, the preferred stock will often sell-off, which may instantly impact shareholders' value. So, traders who get in early or near the beginning of the institutional investor's buying cycle could potentially generate profits.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Great West Lifeco. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in american community survey.

Great-West Preferred Stock Ownership Analysis

About 19.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The company last dividend was issued on the 30th of August 2024. Great-West Lifeco Inc., a financial services holding company, engages in life and health insurance, asset management, investment and retirement savings, and reinsurance businesses in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Great-West Lifeco Inc. is a subsidiary of Power Financial Corporation. GREAT WEST operates under Insurance - Life classification in Canada and is traded on Toronto Stock Exchange. It employs 24200 people. To learn more about Great West Lifeco call Paul Mahon at 204 946 1190 or check out https://www.greatwestlifeco.com.

Great-West Lifeco Outstanding Bonds

Great-West Lifeco issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. Great West Lifeco uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most Great-West bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when Great West Lifeco has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.

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.

Moving against Great-West Preferred Stock

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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 Preferred Stock

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