E L Financial Corp Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

ELF Stock  CAD 1,475  25.00  1.67%   
Assuming the 90 days trading horizon and your slightly conservative level of risk, our recommendation regarding E L Financial Corp is 'Hold'. The recommendation algorithm takes into account all of E L's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site.
  
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In addition, we conduct extensive research on individual companies such as ELF and provide practical buy, sell, or hold advice based on investors' investing horizon and their risk tolerance towards E L 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 board of governors.

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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell E LBuy E L
Hold

Market Performance

OKDetails

Volatility

Very steadyDetails

Hype Condition

Under hypedDetails

Current Valuation

OvervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Barely shadows the marketDetails

Analyst Consensus

Not AvailableDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

InapplicableDetails
For the selected time horizon E L Financial Corp has a Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.1037, Jensen Alpha of 0.1625, Total Risk Alpha of (0.05), Sortino Ratio of 0.041 and Treynor Ratio of 1.31
Macroaxis provides advice on E L Financial to complement and cross-verify current analyst consensus on E L Financial Corp. Our investment recommendation engine determines the company's potential to grow exclusively from the perspective of an investor's current risk tolerance and investing horizon. To make sure E L is not overpriced, please confirm all E L Financial fundamentals, including its shares owned by institutions, gross profit, debt to equity, as well as the relationship between the price to book and cash and equivalents .

E L Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

E L Financial Corp has accumulated 733.37 M in total debt with debt to equity ratio (D/E) of 7.0, indicating the company may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations. E L Financial has a current ratio of 0.48, indicating that it has a negative working capital and may not be able to pay financial obligations in time and when they become due. Debt can assist E L until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, E L's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like E L Financial sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for ELF to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about E L's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.
About 58.0% of E L shares are held by company insiders
Latest headline from news.google.com: E-L FINANCIAL CORPORATION LIMITED ANNOUNCES DIVIDENDS - Barchart

E L Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of E L's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of E L's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of E L daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use E L Financial Corp price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of E L returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for E L.
Mean Return
0.19
Value At Risk
-1.67
Potential Upside
3.20
Standard Deviation
1.46
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of E L historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

E L Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change In Cash(29.5M)124.7M208.3M(333.2M)137.9M144.8M
Free Cash Flow403.8M321.2M344.4M381.0M735.9M772.7M
Other Non Cash Items(1.3B)(1.1B)(848.0M)2.4B(255.5M)(242.7M)
Capital Expenditures12.7M7.9M3.7M16.9M16.7M17.5M
Net Income861.7M603.5M1.3B(327.3M)933.2M979.8M
End Period Cash Flow303.1M427.8M636.1M302.9M440.9M308.3M
Depreciation11.0M12.3M14.4M38.1M9.1M13.8M
Investments(345.5M)40.1M206.6M(437.2M)(386.6M)(405.9M)
Net Borrowings(310M)(25M)137.8M100M90M94.5M
Change To Netincome(313.8M)(191.3M)(877.3M)638.2M733.9M770.6M

E L Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to E L or Insurance sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that E L's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a ELF stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
0.16
β
Beta against Dow Jones0.14
σ
Overall volatility
1.44
Ir
Information ratio 0.04

E L Volatility Alert

E L Financial Corp has relatively low volatility with skewness of 2.93 and kurtosis of 12.89. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure E L's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact E L's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

E L Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing E L's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze E L's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between E L and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as E L or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of E L's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing E L by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare E L to competition
FundamentalsE LPeer Average
Return On Equity0.23-0.31
Return On Asset0.0597-0.14
Profit Margin0.61 %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.92 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation5.68 B16.62 B
Shares Outstanding3.46 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders57.78 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions16.03 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted1654.71 M
Price To Earning11.40 X28.72 X
Price To Book0.65 X9.51 X
Price To Sales1.74 X11.42 X
Revenue4 B9.43 B
Gross Profit(69.98 M)27.38 B
EBITDA(160.27 M)3.9 B
Net Income933.18 M570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents130.71 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share93.96 X5.01 X
Total Debt733.37 M5.32 B
Debt To Equity7.00 %48.70 %
Current Ratio0.49 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share2,389 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations752.58 M971.22 M
Short Ratio4.44 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share478.79 X3.12 X
Beta0.85-0.15
Market Capitalization5.11 B19.03 B
Total Asset25.48 B29.47 B
Retained Earnings6.73 B9.33 B
Annual Yield0.01 %
Five Year Return0.42 %
Net Asset25.48 B
Last Dividend Paid3.75

E L Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as ELF . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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