Fairfax Financial Holdings Preferred Stock Debt To Equity

FFH-PD Preferred Stock  CAD 22.70  0.39  1.75%   
Fairfax Financial Holdings fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Fairfax Financial's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Fairfax Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Fairfax Financial's 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 Fairfax Financial preferred stock.
  
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Fairfax Financial Holdings Company Debt To Equity Analysis

Fairfax Financial's Debt to Equity is calculated by dividing the Total Debt of a company by its Equity. If the debt exceeds equity of a company, then the creditors have more stakes in a firm than the stockholders. In other words, Debt to Equity ratio provides analysts with insights about composition of both equity and debt, and its influence on the valuation of the company.

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Current Fairfax Financial Debt To Equity

    
  41.10 %  
Most of Fairfax Financial's fundamental indicators, such as Debt To Equity, 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, Fairfax Financial Holdings is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
High Debt to Equity ratio typically indicates that a firm has been borrowing aggressively to finance its growth and as a result may experience a burden of additional interest expense. This may reduce earnings or future growth. On the other hand a small D/E ratio may indicate that a company is not taking enough advantage from financial leverage. Debt to Equity ratio measures how the company is leveraging borrowing against the capital invested by the owners.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, Fairfax Financial Holdings has a Debt To Equity of 41.1%. This is 25.15% higher than that of the Insurance sector and 38.76% lower than that of the Financials industry. The debt to equity for all Canada preferred stocks is 15.61% higher than that of the company.

Fairfax Debt To Equity Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Fairfax Financial's direct or indirect competition against its Debt To Equity to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Fairfax Financial could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Fairfax Financial by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Fairfax Financial is currently under evaluation in debt to equity category among its peers.

Fairfax Fundamentals

About Fairfax Financial Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Fairfax Financial Holdings's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Fairfax Financial using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Fairfax Financial Holdings 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 Fairfax Financial

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

Moving together with Fairfax Preferred Stock

  0.77FFH Fairfax FinancialPairCorr
  0.9FFH-PC Fairfax Fin HldPairCorr
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Fairfax Financial could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Fairfax Financial 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 Fairfax Financial - 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 Fairfax Financial Holdings to buy it.
The correlation of Fairfax Financial 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 Fairfax Financial moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Fairfax Financial 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 Fairfax Financial 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 Fairfax Preferred Stock

Fairfax Financial financial ratios help investors to determine whether Fairfax 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 Fairfax with respect to the benefits of owning Fairfax Financial security.