Altagas Ltd Pref Preferred Stock Earnings Per Share
| ALA-PG Preferred Stock | CAD 22.99 0.01 0.04% |
Altagas Ltd Pref fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Altagas' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Altagas Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Altagas' 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 Altagas preferred stock.
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Altagas Ltd Pref Company Earnings Per Share Analysis
Altagas' Earnings per Share (EPS) denotes the portion of a company's earnings that is allocated to each share of common stock. To calculate Earnings per Share investors will need to take a company's net income, subtract any dividends for preferred stock, and divide it by the number of average outstanding shares. EPS is usually presented in two different ways: basic and diluted. Fully diluted Earnings per Share takes into account effects of warrants, options, and convertible securities and is generally viewed by analysts as a more accurate measure.
Current Altagas Earnings Per Share | 0.89 X |
Most of Altagas' fundamental indicators, such as Earnings Per Share, 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, Altagas Ltd Pref is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Earnings per Share is one of the most critical measures of the firm's current share price and is used by investors to determine the overall company profitability, especially when compared to the EPS of similar companies.
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According to the company disclosure, Altagas Ltd Pref has an Earnings Per Share of 0.889 times. This is 12.53% higher than that of the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels sector and 29.44% lower than that of the Energy industry. The earnings per share for all Canada preferred stocks is 71.51% higher than that of the company.
Altagas Earnings Per Share Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Altagas' direct or indirect competition against its Earnings Per Share to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Altagas could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Altagas by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Altagas is currently under evaluation in earnings per share category among its peers.
Altagas Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.0578 | ||||
| Return On Asset | 0.027 | ||||
| Profit Margin | 0.04 % | ||||
| Operating Margin | 0.03 % | ||||
| Current Valuation | 17.08 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 270.52 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 29.40 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 138.3 K | ||||
| Price To Earning | 14.17 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 0.65 X | ||||
| Revenue | 13 B | ||||
| Gross Profit | 2.95 B | ||||
| EBITDA | 1.45 B | ||||
| Net Income | 673 M | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 46.3 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 0.17 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 1.13 B | ||||
| Debt To Equity | 108.20 % | ||||
| Current Ratio | 0.69 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | 26.51 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 1.12 B | ||||
| Short Ratio | 4.97 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 0.89 X | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 13 | ||||
| Beta | 1.23 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 8.31 B | ||||
| Total Asset | 23.47 B | ||||
| Retained Earnings | (817 M) | ||||
| Working Capital | (368 M) | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.05 % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 5.32 % | ||||
| Net Asset | 23.47 B | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 1.16 |
About Altagas Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Altagas Ltd Pref's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Altagas using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Altagas Ltd Pref 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 Altagas
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 Altagas 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 Altagas will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving against Altagas Preferred Stock
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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Altagas could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Altagas 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 Altagas - 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 Altagas Ltd Pref to buy it.
The correlation of Altagas 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 Altagas moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Altagas Pref 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 Altagas 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.Other Information on Investing in Altagas Preferred Stock
Altagas financial ratios help investors to determine whether Altagas 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 Altagas with respect to the benefits of owning Altagas security.