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One Mid-Cap Consumer Defensive Stock to Consider Amid Rising Interest Rate Scenario  – MFI

Feb 23, 2023 | Team Kalkine
One Mid-Cap Consumer Defensive Stock to Consider Amid Rising Interest Rate Scenario  – MFI

Section1: Company Overview

Maple Leaf Foods Inc (TSX: MFI) is a consumer-packaged meats company. It produces prepared meats and meals, fresh pork, and poultry and turkey products. The company also has agribusiness operations. These operations supply livestock to the meat products business operations. Its main markets are Canada, the United States, Japan, and China.

1.1 The Key Positives, Negatives, Investment Highlights, and Risks

Section2:  Financial Highlights

2.1 Key Financial Highlights

Section 3:  Stock Recommendation Summary

3.1 Valuation Methodology

Valuation Methodology (Illustrative): EV to Sales based

3.2 Price Performance and Stock Recommendation

The stock has witnessed an upside of ~7.07% in 1 month and ~8.57% over the last 3 months. Moreover, the stock is trading above the average of 52-week high price of CAD 32.39 and 52-week low price of CAD 18.85 providing an opportunity to ride the trend.

3.3 One-Year Technical Price Chart

One-Year Technical Price Chart (as of February 22, 2023). Source: REFINITIV, Analysis: Kalkine Group

3.4 Technical Summary

Note 1: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

Note 2: The reference date for all price data, currency, technical indicators, support, and resistance levels as on February 22, 2023. The reference data in this report has been partly sourced from REFINITIV.

Note 3: Investment decisions should be made depending on an individual's appetite for upside potential, risks, holding duration, and any previous holdings. An 'Exit' from the stock can be considered if the Target Price mentioned as per the Valuation and or the technical levels provided has been achieved and is subject to the factors discussed above.

Technical Indicators Defined: -

Support: A level at which the stock prices tend to find support if they are falling, and a downtrend may take a pause backed by demand or buying interest.

Resistance: A level at which the stock prices tend to find resistance when they are rising, and the uptrend may take a pause due to profit booking or selling interest.

Stop-loss: In general, it is a level to protect further losses in case of any unfavourable movement in the stock prices.


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