Precision Drilling Stock Beta
| PD Stock | CAD 90.34 2.36 2.55% |
Precision Drilling fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Precision Drilling's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Precision Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Precision Drilling'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 Precision Drilling stock.
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Precision Drilling Company Beta Analysis
Precision Drilling's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.
Current Precision Drilling Beta | 2.75 |
Most of Precision Drilling's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, 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, Precision Drilling is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Precision Beta Driver Correlations
Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Precision Drilling is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Precision Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Beta. Since Precision Drilling'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 Precision Drilling'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 Precision Drilling's interrelated accounts and indicators.
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In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Precision Drilling has a Beta of 2.748. This is 61.65% higher than that of the Energy Equipment & Services sector and 13.55% higher than that of the Energy industry. The beta for all Canada stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.
Precision Beta Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Precision Drilling's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Precision Drilling could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Precision Drilling by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Precision Drilling is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
Precision Drilling Current Valuation Drivers
We derive many important indicators used in calculating different scores of Precision Drilling from analyzing Precision Drilling's financial statements. These drivers represent accounts that assess Precision Drilling's ability to generate profits relative to its revenue, operating costs, and shareholders' equity. Below are some of Precision Drilling's important valuation drivers and their relationship over time.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Market Cap | 695.7M | 526.3M | 595.0M | 1.4B | 989.7M | 940.3M | |
| Enterprise Value | 2.3B | 1.9B | 1.7B | 2.5B | 2.9B | 2.8B |
As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Precision Drilling will likely underperform.
Precision Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.16 | ||||
| Return On Asset | 0.054 | ||||
| Profit Margin | 0.13 % | ||||
| Operating Margin | 0.14 % | ||||
| Current Valuation | 2.14 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 14.07 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 2.13 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 57.14 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 457.8 K | ||||
| Price To Earning | (7.36) X | ||||
| Price To Book | 0.79 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 0.67 X | ||||
| Revenue | 1.94 B | ||||
| Gross Profit | 492.59 M | ||||
| EBITDA | 611.12 M | ||||
| Net Income | 289.24 M | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 80.58 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 0.27 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 992.19 M | ||||
| Debt To Equity | 102.00 % | ||||
| Current Ratio | 1.83 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | 117.77 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 500.57 M | ||||
| Short Ratio | 4.16 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 16.42 X | ||||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 0.33 X | ||||
| Target Price | 123.9 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 5 K | ||||
| Beta | 2.75 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 1.3 B | ||||
| Total Asset | 3.31 B | ||||
| Retained Earnings | (1.01 B) | ||||
| Working Capital | 145.24 M | ||||
| Net Asset | 3.31 B |
About Precision Drilling Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Precision Drilling's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Precision Drilling using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Precision Drilling 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.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.
Pair Trading with Precision Drilling
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 Precision Drilling 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 Precision Drilling will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving against Precision Stock
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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Precision Drilling could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Precision Drilling 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 Precision Drilling - 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 Precision Drilling to buy it.
The correlation of Precision Drilling 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 Precision Drilling moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Precision Drilling 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 Precision Drilling 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.Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Precision Drilling. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in estimate. To learn how to invest in Precision Stock, please use our How to Invest in Precision Drilling guide.You can also try the Portfolio Backtesting module to avoid under-diversification and over-optimization by backtesting your portfolios.