Intact Financial Stock Operating Margin

IFC Stock  CAD 272.71  0.51  0.19%   
Intact Financial fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Intact Financial's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Intact Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Intact 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 Intact Financial stock.
  
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Intact Financial Company Operating Margin Analysis

Intact Financial's Operating Margin shows how much operating income a company makes on each dollar of sales. It is one of the profitability indicators which helps analysts to understand whether the firm is successful or not making money from everyday operations.

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Current Intact Financial Operating Margin

    
  0.04 %  
Most of Intact Financial's fundamental indicators, such as Operating Margin, 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, Intact Financial is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
A good Operating Margin is required for a company to be able to pay for its fixed costs or payout its debt, which implies that the higher the margin, the better. This ratio is most effective in evaluating the earning potential of a company over time when comparing it against a firm's competitors.
Competition

Based on the recorded statements, Intact Financial has an Operating Margin of 0.039%. This is 99.79% lower than that of the Insurance sector and significantly higher than that of the Financials industry. The operating margin for all Canada stocks is 100.71% lower than that of the firm.

Intact Operating Margin Peer Comparison

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

Intact Fundamentals

About Intact Financial Fundamental Analysis

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

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 Intact Financial 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 Intact Financial will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Intact Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Intact Financial could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Intact Financial 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 Intact Financial - 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 Intact Financial to buy it.
The correlation of Intact 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 perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Intact Financial moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Intact Financial 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 Intact Financial 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 Intact Stock

Intact Financial financial ratios help investors to determine whether Intact 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 Intact with respect to the benefits of owning Intact Financial security.