Fifth Third Bancorp Preferred Stock Short Ratio

FITBO Preferred Stock  USD 23.56  0.10  0.43%   
Fifth Third Bancorp fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Fifth Third's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Fifth Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Fifth Third'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 Fifth Third preferred stock.
  
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Fifth Third Bancorp Company Short Ratio Analysis

Fifth Third's Short Ratio is typically used by traders and speculators to identify trends in current market sentiment for a particular equity instrument. In its simple terms this ratio shows how many days it will take all current short sellers to cover their positions if the price of a stock begins to rise.

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Current Fifth Third Short Ratio

    
  3.94 X  
Most of Fifth Third's fundamental indicators, such as Short Ratio, 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, Fifth Third Bancorp is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
The higher the Short Ratio, the longer it would take to buy back the borrowed shares. In theory, the more short positions are currently outstanding, the faster it will be to cover shorted positions.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Fifth Third Bancorp has a Short Ratio of 3.94 times. This is 38.72% lower than that of the Financial Services sector and significantly higher than that of the Banks—Regional industry. The short ratio for all United States preferred stocks is 1.5% higher than that of the company.

Fifth Short Ratio Peer Comparison

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

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About Fifth Third Fundamental Analysis

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

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 Fifth Third 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 Fifth Third will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Fifth Third could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Fifth Third 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 Fifth Third - 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 Fifth Third Bancorp to buy it.
The correlation of Fifth Third 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 Fifth Third moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Fifth Third Bancorp 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 Fifth Third 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 Fifth Preferred Stock

Fifth Third financial ratios help investors to determine whether Fifth 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 Fifth with respect to the benefits of owning Fifth Third security.