Great West Ownership

GWO Stock  CAD 53.06  0.06  0.11%   
Great West Lifeco has a total of 932.11 Million outstanding shares. Great West retains majority of its outstanding shares owned by insiders. An insider is usually defined as a corporate executive, director, member of the board or institutional investor who own at least 10% of the company's outstanding shares. 70.65 (percent) of Great West outstanding shares that are owned by insiders attests that they have been buying or selling the stock in recent months in anticipation of some upcoming event. 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.
 
Shares in Circulation  
First Issued
1997-03-31
Previous Quarter
934.8 M
Current Value
934.3 M
Avarage Shares Outstanding
895.4 M
Quarterly Volatility
97.8 M
 
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Some institutional investors establish a significant position in stocks such as Great West 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, and when they decide to sell, the 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 board of governors.

Great Stock Ownership Analysis

About 71.0% of the company shares are held by company insiders. The company has price-to-book (P/B) ratio of 1.82. Some equities with similar Price to Book (P/B) outperform the market in the long run. Great West Lifeco has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.81. The entity last dividend was issued on the 3rd of March 2025. The firm had 2:1 split on the 4th of October 2004. Great-West Lifeco Inc., a financial services holding company, engages in the life and health insurance, retirement and investment services, asset management, and reinsurance businesses in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Great-West Lifeco Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Power Financial Corporation. GREAT WEST operates under Insurance - Life And Health classification in Canada and is traded on Toronto Stock Exchange. It employs 28000 people. To learn more about Great West Lifeco call Paul Mahon at 204 946 1190 or check out https://www.greatwestlifeco.com.

Great West Outstanding Bonds

Great West 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 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

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

Moving together with Great Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Great West 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 Stock

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