Manulife Financial Corp Preferred Stock Shares Owned By Institutions

MFC-PL Preferred Stock  CAD 22.85  0.04  0.17%   
Manulife Financial Corp fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Manulife Financial'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 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 Manulife Financial preferred stock.
  
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Manulife Financial Corp Company Shares Owned By Institutions Analysis

Manulife Financial's Shares Owned by Institutions show the percentage of the outstanding shares of stock issued by a company that is currently owned by other institutions such as asset management firms, hedge funds, or investment banks. Many investors like investing in companies with a large percentage of the firm owned by institutions because they believe that larger firms such as banks, pension funds, and mutual funds, will invest when they think that good things are going to happen.

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Current Manulife Financial Shares Owned By Institutions

    
  35.55 %  
Most of Manulife Financial's fundamental indicators, such as Shares Owned By Institutions, 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 Financial Corp is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Since Institution investors conduct a lot of independent research they tend to be more involved and usually more knowledgeable about entities they invest as compared to amateur investors.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, 35.55% of Manulife Financial Corp are shares owned by institutions. This is 19.54% higher than that of the Financial Services sector and 33.82% lower than that of the Insurance - Life industry. The shares owned by institutions for all Canada preferred stocks is 9.33% higher than that of the company.

Manulife Shares Owned By Institutions Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Manulife Financial's direct or indirect competition against its Shares Owned By Institutions 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 Financial could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Manulife Financial by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Manulife Financial is regarded third in shares owned by institutions category among its peers.

Manulife Fundamentals

About Manulife Financial Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Manulife Financial Corp's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Manulife Financial using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Manulife Financial Corp 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 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 Manulife 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 Manulife Financial will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Manulife Preferred Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Manulife 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 Manulife 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 Manulife 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 Manulife Financial Corp to buy it.
The correlation of Manulife 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 Manulife Financial moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Manulife Financial Corp 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 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 Manulife Preferred Stock

Manulife Financial 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 Financial security.