Canadian Utilities Limited Stock Price To Earning
| CU Stock | CAD 30.43 0.10 0.33% |
Canadian Utilities Limited fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Canadian Utilities' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Canadian Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Canadian Utilities' 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 Canadian Utilities stock.
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Canadian Utilities Limited Company Price To Earning Analysis
Canadian Utilities' Price to Earnings ratio is typically used for current valuation of a company and is one of the most popular ratios that investors monitor daily. Holding a low PE stock is less risky because when a company's profitability falls, it is likely that earnings will also go down as well. In other words, if you start from a lower position, your downside risk is limited. There are also some investors who believe that low Price to Earnings ratio reflects the low pricing because a given company is in trouble. On the other hand, a higher PE ratio means that investors are paying more for each unit of profit.
Current Canadian Utilities Price To Earning | 29.45 X |
Most of Canadian Utilities' fundamental indicators, such as Price To Earning, 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, Canadian Utilities Limited is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Canadian Price To Earning Driver Correlations
Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Canadian Utilities is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Canadian Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Price To Earning. Since Canadian Utilities' 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 Canadian Utilities' 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 Canadian Utilities' interrelated accounts and indicators.
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Generally speaking, the Price to Earnings ratio gives investors an idea of what the market is willing to pay for the company's current earnings.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, Canadian Utilities Limited has a Price To Earning of 29.45 times. This is 2.48% lower than that of the Electric Utilities sector and significantly higher than that of the Utilities industry. The price to earning for all Canada stocks is 2.54% lower than that of the firm.
Canadian Price To Earning Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Canadian Utilities' direct or indirect competition against its Price To Earning to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Canadian Utilities could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Canadian Utilities by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Canadian Utilities is currently under evaluation in price to earning category among related companies.
Canadian Utilities Current Valuation Drivers
We derive many important indicators used in calculating different scores of Canadian Utilities from analyzing Canadian Utilities' financial statements. These drivers represent accounts that assess Canadian Utilities' ability to generate profits relative to its revenue, operating costs, and shareholders' equity. Below are some of Canadian Utilities' important valuation drivers and their relationship over time.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Market Cap | 10.7B | 8.5B | 9.9B | 9.9B | 8.6B | 5.1B | |
| Enterprise Value | 18.7B | 16.8B | 18.7B | 18.8B | 19.0B | 10.2B |
Canadian Utilities ESG Sustainability
Some studies have found that companies with high sustainability scores are getting higher valuations than competitors with lower social-engagement activities. While most ESG disclosures are voluntary and do not directly affect the long term financial condition, Canadian Utilities' sustainability indicators can be used to identify proper investment strategies using environmental, social, and governance scores that are crucial to Canadian Utilities' managers, analysts, and investors.Environment Score | Governance Score | Social Score |
Canadian Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.1 | ||||
| Return On Asset | 0.0287 | ||||
| Profit Margin | 0.19 % | ||||
| Operating Margin | 0.10 % | ||||
| Current Valuation | 20.19 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 204.33 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 37.97 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 14.99 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 1.44 M | ||||
| Price To Earning | 29.45 X | ||||
| Price To Book | 1.52 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 1.62 X | ||||
| Revenue | 3.8 B | ||||
| Gross Profit | 2.73 B | ||||
| EBITDA | 1.76 B | ||||
| Net Income | 707 M | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 911 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 2.76 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 528 M | ||||
| Debt To Equity | 1.39 % | ||||
| Current Ratio | 1.51 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | 19.83 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 1.78 B | ||||
| Short Ratio | 2.98 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 2.33 X | ||||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 3.47 X | ||||
| Target Price | 34.33 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 9.02 K | ||||
| Beta | 0.6 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 6.22 B | ||||
| Total Asset | 23.16 B | ||||
| Retained Earnings | 4.08 B | ||||
| Working Capital | 15 M | ||||
| Current Asset | 1.06 B | ||||
| Current Liabilities | 799 M | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.06 % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 4.72 % | ||||
| Net Asset | 23.16 B | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 1.79 |
About Canadian Utilities Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Canadian Utilities Limited's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Canadian Utilities using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Canadian Utilities Limited 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 Canadian Utilities
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 Canadian Utilities 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 Canadian Utilities will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.The ability to find closely correlated positions to Canadian Utilities could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Canadian Utilities 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 Canadian Utilities - 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 Canadian Utilities Limited to buy it.
The correlation of Canadian Utilities 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 Canadian Utilities moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Canadian Utilities 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 Canadian Utilities 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.Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Canadian Utilities Limited. Also, note that the market value of any company could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in estimate. You can also try the My Watchlist Analysis module to analyze my current watchlist and to refresh optimization strategy. Macroaxis watchlist is based on self-learning algorithm to remember stocks you like.
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