Manulife Finl Srs Preferred Stock Cash And Equivalents

MFC-PC Preferred Stock  CAD 19.30  0.15  0.78%   
Manulife Finl Srs fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Manulife Finl's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Manulife Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Manulife Finl'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 Manulife Finl preferred stock.
  
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Manulife Finl Srs Company Cash And Equivalents Analysis

Manulife Finl's Cash or Cash Equivalents are the most liquid of all assets found on the company's balance sheet. It is used in calculating many of the firm's liquidity ratios and is a good indicator of the overall financial health of a company. Companies with a lot of cash are usually attractive takeover targets. Cash Equivalents are balance sheet items that are typically reported using currency printed on notes.

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Current Manulife Finl Cash And Equivalents

    
  33.11 B  
Most of Manulife Finl's fundamental indicators, such as Cash And Equivalents, 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, Manulife Finl Srs is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Cash equivalents represent current assets that are easily convertible to cash such as short term bonds, savings account, money market funds, or certificate of deposits (CDs). One of the important consideration companies make when classifying assets as cash equivalent is that investments they report on their balance sheets under current assets should have almost no risk of change in value over the next few months (usually three months).
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Manulife Finl Srs has 33.11 B in Cash And Equivalents. This indicator is about the same for the Financial Services average (which is currently at 33.78 B) sector and significantly higher than that of the Insurance - Life industry. The cash and equivalents for all Canada preferred stocks is significantly lower than that of the firm.

Manulife Cash And Equivalents Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Manulife Finl's direct or indirect competition against its Cash And Equivalents to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Manulife Finl could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Manulife Finl by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Manulife Finl is regarded fifth in cash and equivalents category among its peers.

Manulife Fundamentals

About Manulife Finl Fundamental Analysis

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

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 Manulife Finl 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 Manulife Finl will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Manulife Preferred Stock

  0.82MFC-PJ Manulife Fin NonPairCorr
  0.66MFC-PK Manulife Financial CorpPairCorr

Moving against Manulife Preferred Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Manulife Finl could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Manulife Finl 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 Manulife Finl - 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 Manulife Finl Srs to buy it.
The correlation of Manulife Finl 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 Manulife Finl moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Manulife Finl Srs 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 Manulife Finl 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 Manulife Preferred Stock

Manulife Finl financial ratios help investors to determine whether Manulife 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 Manulife with respect to the benefits of owning Manulife Finl security.