Maple Leaf Foods Stock Fundamentals

MFI Stock  CAD 23.34  0.72  3.18%   
Maple Leaf Foods fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Maple Leaf's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Maple Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Maple Leaf'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 Maple Leaf stock.
At this time, Maple Leaf's Interest Expense is very stable compared to the past year. As of the 26th of November 2024, EBITDA is likely to grow to about 302.7 M, while Depreciation And Amortization is likely to drop about 142.1 M.
  
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Maple Leaf Foods Company Return On Asset Analysis

Maple Leaf's Return on Asset or ROA shows how effective is the management of the company in generating income from utilizing all of the assets at their disposal. It is a useful ratio to evaluate the performance of different departments of a company as well as to understand management performance over time.

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Current Maple Leaf Return On Asset

    
  0.0325  
Most of Maple Leaf's fundamental indicators, such as Return On Asset, 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, Maple Leaf Foods is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.

Maple Return On Asset Driver Correlations

Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Maple Leaf is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Maple Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Return On Asset. Since Maple Leaf's main accounts across its financial reports are all linked and dependent on each other, it is essential to analyze all possible correlations between related accounts. However, instead of reviewing all of Maple Leaf's historical financial statements, investors can examine the correlated drivers to determine its overall health. This can be effectively done using a conventional correlation matrix of Maple Leaf's interrelated accounts and indicators.
Return on Asset measures overall efficiency of a company in generating profits from its total assets. It is expressed as the percentage of profits earned per dollar of Asset. A low ROA typically means that a company is asset-intensive and therefore will needs more money to continue generating revenue in the future.
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Maple Total Assets

Total Assets

3.11 Billion

At this time, Maple Leaf's Total Assets are very stable compared to the past year.
Based on the latest financial disclosure, Maple Leaf Foods has a Return On Asset of 0.0325. This is 8.33% higher than that of the Food Products sector and 101.41% lower than that of the Consumer Staples industry. The return on asset for all Canada stocks is 123.21% lower than that of the firm.

Maple Leaf Foods Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Maple Leaf's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Maple Leaf value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Maple Leaf competition to find correlations between indicators driving Maple Leaf's intrinsic value. More Info.
Maple Leaf Foods is rated below average in return on equity category among its peers. It also is rated below average in return on asset category among its peers reporting about  1.47  of Return On Asset per Return On Equity. At this time, Maple Leaf's Return On Equity is very stable compared to the past year. Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all model that can be used if you cannot value Maple Leaf by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. This model doesn't attempt to find an intrinsic value for Maple Leaf's Stock. Still, instead, it compares the stock's price multiples to a benchmark or nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued.

Maple Return On Asset Peer Comparison

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

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About Maple Leaf Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Maple Leaf Foods's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Maple Leaf using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Maple Leaf Foods 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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Last ReportedProjected for Next Year
Current Deferred Revenue14.4 M19.3 M
Total Revenue4.9 B4.9 B
Cost Of Revenue4.4 B3.2 B
Sales General And Administrative To Revenue 0.11  0.08 
Capex To Revenue 0.04  0.04 
Revenue Per Share 39.97  41.24 

Pair Trading with Maple Leaf

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 Maple Leaf 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 Maple Leaf will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving against Maple Stock

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

Maple Leaf financial ratios help investors to determine whether Maple 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 Maple with respect to the benefits of owning Maple Leaf security.