Winpak Ownership

WPK Stock  CAD 44.32  0.13  0.29%   
Winpak retains a total of 63.05 Million outstanding shares. Winpak owns significant amount of outstanding shares owned by insiders. An insider is usually defined as a CEO, other corporate executive, director, or institutional investor who own at least 10% of the company's outstanding shares. Since such a large part of the company is owned by insiders, it is advisable to analyze if each of these insiders have been buying or selling the stock in recent months. Please note that no matter how many assets the company shows, if the real value of the company is less than the current market value, you may not be able to make money on it.
Some institutional investors establish a significant position in stocks such as Winpak in order to find ways to drive up its value. Retail investors, on the other hand, need to know that institutional holders can own millions of shares of Winpak, and when they decide to sell, the stock will often sell-off, which may instantly impact shareholders' value. So, traders who get in early or near the beginning of the institutional investor's buying cycle could potentially generate profits.
  
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Winpak Stock Ownership Analysis

About 60.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by insiders. The company has Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.4. Historically many companies with similar price-to-book (P/B) ratio do better than the market in the long run. Winpak last dividend was issued on the 2nd of January 2025. The entity had 10:1 split on the 9th of May 2005. Winpak Ltd. manufactures and distributes packaging materials and related packaging machines in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada. WINPAK operates under Packaging Containers classification in Canada and is traded on Toronto Stock Exchange. It employs 2455 people. For more information please call Olivier Muggli at 204 889 1015 or visit https://www.winpak.com.

Winpak Outstanding Bonds

Winpak issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. Winpak uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most Winpak bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when Winpak has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.

Pair Trading with Winpak

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

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

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