Transalta Stock Cash And Equivalents
| TZ1 Stock | EUR 10.27 0.14 1.38% |
TransAlta fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to TransAlta's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of TransAlta Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure TransAlta'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 TransAlta stock.
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TransAlta Company Cash And Equivalents Analysis
TransAlta'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.
Current TransAlta Cash And Equivalents | 703 M |
Most of TransAlta'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, TransAlta 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, TransAlta has 703 M in Cash And Equivalents. This is 17.97% higher than that of the Utilities sector and significantly higher than that of the Utilities—Independent Power Producers industry. The cash and equivalents for all Germany stocks is 73.98% higher than that of the company.
TransAlta Cash And Equivalents Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses TransAlta's direct or indirect competition against its Cash And Equivalents to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of TransAlta could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing TransAlta by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.TransAlta is currently under evaluation in cash and equivalents category among its peers.
TransAlta Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.0703 | |||
| Return On Asset | 0.037 | |||
| Profit Margin | 0.02 % | |||
| Operating Margin | 0.20 % | |||
| Current Valuation | 4.74 B | |||
| Shares Outstanding | 268.2 M | |||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 73.80 % | |||
| Price To Earning | 112.09 X | |||
| Price To Book | 5.61 X | |||
| Price To Sales | 0.91 X | |||
| Revenue | 2.98 B | |||
| Gross Profit | 1.11 B | |||
| EBITDA | 1.21 B | |||
| Net Income | 50 M | |||
| Cash And Equivalents | 703 M | |||
| Cash Per Share | 2.61 X | |||
| Total Debt | 3.35 B | |||
| Debt To Equity | 1.19 % | |||
| Current Ratio | 2.03 X | |||
| Book Value Per Share | 0.63 X | |||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 877 M | |||
| Earnings Per Share | 0.01 X | |||
| Number Of Employees | 1.15 K | |||
| Beta | 1.07 | |||
| Market Capitalization | 2.05 B | |||
| Total Asset | 10.74 B | |||
| Annual Yield | 0.02 % | |||
| Five Year Return | 2.57 % | |||
| Net Asset | 10.74 B | |||
| Last Dividend Paid | 0.21 |
About TransAlta Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze TransAlta's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of TransAlta using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of TransAlta 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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