North American Financial Preferred Stock Cash Flow From Operations
| FFN-PA Preferred Stock | CAD 10.78 0.04 0.37% |
North American Financial fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to North American's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of North Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure North American'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 North American preferred stock.
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North American Financial Company Cash Flow From Operations Analysis
North American's Operating Cash Flow reveals the quality of a company's reported earnings and is calculated by deducting company's income taxes from earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation (EBITDA). In other words, Operating Cash Flow refers to the amount of cash a firm generates from the sales or products or from rendering services. Operating Cash Flow typically excludes costs associated with long-term investments or investment in marketable securities and is usually used by investors or analysts to check on the quality of a company's earnings.
Operating Cash Flow shows the difference between reported income and actual cash flows of the company. If a firm does not have enough cash or cash equivalents to cover its current liabilities, then both investors and management should be concerned about the company having enough liquid resources to meet current and long term debt obligations.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, North American Financial has 0.0 in Cash Flow From Operations. This indicator is about the same for the Capital Markets average (which is currently at 0.0) sector and about the same as Financials (which currently averages 0.0) industry. This indicator is about the same for all Canada preferred stocks average (which is currently at 0.0).
North Cash Flow From Operations Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses North American's direct or indirect competition against its Cash Flow From Operations to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of North American could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing North American by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.North American is currently under evaluation in cash flow from operations category among its peers.
North Fundamentals
| Total Debt | 3.91 M | ||||
| Total Asset | 726.79 M | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.06 % | ||||
| Net Asset | 726.79 M | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 0.0458 |
About North American Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze North American Financial's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of North American using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of North American Financial 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 North American
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 North American 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 North American will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving together with North Preferred Stock
Moving against North Preferred Stock
The ability to find closely correlated positions to North American could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace North American 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 North American - 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 North American Financial to buy it.
The correlation of North American 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 North American moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if North American Financial 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 North American 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.Other Information on Investing in North Preferred Stock
North American financial ratios help investors to determine whether North 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 North with respect to the benefits of owning North American security.