Section1: Company Overview
Definity Financial Corp (TSX: DFY) is a multi-channel, property, and casualty insurance company. It offers auto, property, liability, and pet insurance products to individual customers. Its commercial insurance products include fleet, individually rated commercial auto, property, liability, and specialty insurance products.
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): Price to Book Value based
3.2 Price Performance and Stock Recommendation
The stock has witnessed a slight downside of ~2.92% in 1 month and ~3.99% over the last 3 months. Moreover, the stock is trading above the average of 52-week high price of CAD 40.95 and 52-week low price of CAD 27.00 providing an opportunity to ride the trend.
3.3 One-Year Technical Price Chart
One-Year Technical Price Chart (as of February 21, 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 21, 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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