Canadian Western Bank Stock Today
Canadian Western is selling at 56.63 as of the 18th of February 2025; that is No Change since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's open price was 56.63. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 1st of March 2023 and ending today, the 18th of February 2025. Click here to learn more.
Business Domain Banks | Category Financial Services | Classification Financials |
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Canadian Stock Highlights
Most reasonable investors view market volatility as an opportunity to invest at a favorable price or to sell short against a bearish trend. Canadian Western's investment highlights are automatically generated signals that are significant enough to either complement your investing judgment regarding Canadian Western or challenge it. These highlights can help you better understand the position you are entering and avoid costly mistakes.
| CEO President | Christopher MA | ||||
| Business Concentration | Regional Banks, Banks - Regional, Financial Services, Financials, Banks, Banks—Regional, Financial Services (View all Sectors) | ||||
Canadian Western's financial strength is of vital concern to both outside investors and internal stakeholders. Efficiency and cost control are keys to Canadian Western's success, along with its ability to generate sufficient cash flow to pay bills, repay debt, and make a consistent year-to-year profit. | |||||
Debt LevelsCanadian Western can leverage the use of borrowed funds to amplify returns from an investment. In general, analyzing the relationship between debt to total assets helps investors to understand Canadian Western's financial leverage. It provides some insight into what part of Canadian Western's total assets is financed by creditors.
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Canadian Western Bank (CWB) is traded on Toronto Exchange in Canada and employs 2,532 people. Canadian Western is listed under Regional Banks category by Fama And French industry classification. The company currently falls under 'Mid-Cap' category with a current market capitalization of 5.48 B. Market capitalization usually refers to the total value of a company's stock within the entire market. To calculate Canadian Western's market, we take the total number of its shares issued and multiply it by Canadian Western's current market price. To manage market risk and economic uncertainty, many investors today build portfolios that are diversified across equities with different market capitalizations. However, as a general rule, conservative investors tend to hold large-cap stocks, and those looking for more risk prefer small-cap and mid-cap equities. Canadian Western Bank operates under Banks sector and is part of Financials industry. The entity has 96.74 M outstanding shares of which 1.68 M shares are currently shorted by private and institutional investors with about 7.03 days to cover all short positions.
Canadian Western Bank has accumulated about 2.97 B in cash with 684.98 M of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 34.05.
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Canadian Western Bank Risk Profiles
Although Canadian Western's alpha and beta are two of the key measurements used to evaluate Canadian Western's performance over the market, the standard measures of volatility play an important role as well.
| Mean Deviation | 0.8818 | |||
| Semi Deviation | 1.41 | |||
| Standard Deviation | 1.4 | |||
| Variance | 1.96 |
Canadian Stock Against Markets
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Canadian Western Related Equities
One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Canadian Western stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Canadian Western could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Canadian Western by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
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Canadian Western Corporate Directors
| Robert Manning | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Linda Hohol | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Raymond Protti | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Hugh Riley | Independent Director | Profile |
Other Information on Investing in Canadian Stock
Canadian Western financial ratios help investors to determine whether Canadian 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 Canadian with respect to the benefits of owning Canadian Western security.