Fairfax Financial Holdings Stock Debt To Equity

FFX Stock  EUR 1,336  24.00  1.83%   
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 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 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 Financial Services sector and 38.76% lower than that of the Insurance - Property & Casualty industry. The debt to equity for all Germany 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 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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Fairfax Financial financial ratios help investors to determine whether Fairfax 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.