Manulife Financial Correlations

MFC Stock  USD 32.68  0.51  1.59%   
The current 90-days correlation between Manulife Financial Corp and Prudential Financial is 0.6 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Manulife 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 correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.

Manulife Financial Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Manulife Financial Corp and DJI is 0.68 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Manulife Financial Corp and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Manulife Financial Corp. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in census.

Moving together with Manulife Stock

  0.74FG FG Annuities LifePairCorr
  0.78GL Globe LifePairCorr
  0.82BHF Brighthouse FinancialPairCorr
  0.76CIA CitizensPairCorr
  0.89CNO CNO Financial GroupPairCorr
  0.73GNW Genworth FinancialPairCorr
  0.8LNC Lincoln NationalPairCorr
  0.81MET MetLifePairCorr
  0.87GWLIF Great West LifecoPairCorr
  0.93PRI PrimericaPairCorr
  0.83PRU Prudential FinancialPairCorr
  0.95UNM Unum GroupPairCorr
  0.7LNC-PD Lincoln NationalPairCorr
  0.81JXN-PA Jackson FinancialPairCorr
  0.83ANG-PB American NationalPairCorr
  0.85ANG-PA American NationalPairCorr
  0.63UTGN UTG IncPairCorr
  0.87C Citigroup Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.77V Visa Class APairCorr

Moving against Manulife Stock

  0.73ABL Abacus LifePairCorr
  0.47FLFG Federal Life GroupPairCorr
  0.34MET-PE MetLife Preferred StockPairCorr
  0.59KCLI Kansas City LifePairCorr
  0.55AVVIY Aviva PLC ADRPairCorr
  0.45AXAHY Axa SA ADRPairCorr
  0.31BHFAO Brighthouse FinancialPairCorr
  0.34CSLI Critical SolutionsPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
BHFLNC
BHFUNM
LNCUNM
LNCJXN
BHFJXN
METPRU
  
High negative correlations   
MET-PAFG
MET-PABHF
MET-PALNC
MET-PAAFL
BHFAPBHF
BHFAPLNC

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Manulife Stock performing well and Manulife Financial Company doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Manulife Financial's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
PRU  1.05  0.03  0.05  0.12  1.27 
 1.97 
 9.29 
MET  1.01  0.11  0.09  0.18  1.36 
 2.31 
 9.20 
UNM  1.04  0.40  0.45  0.41  0.03 
 3.79 
 9.41 
JXN  1.78  0.04  0.08  0.12  2.18 
 4.62 
 20.40 
LNC  1.60  0.02  0.06  0.11  1.74 
 3.45 
 16.67 
AFL  0.85  0.02  0.00  0.12  1.24 
 1.52 
 6.76 
BHF  1.39  0.02  0.07  0.11  1.65 
 2.89 
 15.28 
FG  1.90 (0.03) 0.07  0.09  2.13 
 3.79 
 21.12 
MET-PA  0.41  0.01 (0.16) 0.19  0.52 
 0.95 
 2.81 
BHFAP  0.72 (0.02)(0.11) 0.01  0.86 
 1.46 
 4.08