The following are today's upgrades for Validea's P/E/Growth Investor model based on the published strategy of Peter Lynch. This strategy looks for stocks trading at a reasonable price relative to earnings growth that also possess strong balance sheets.
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK (TD) is a large-cap value stock in the Money Center Banks industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Peter Lynch changed from 0% to 81% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: The Toronto-Dominion Bank (the Bank) operates as a bank in North America. The Bank, along with subsidiaries, operates across four main business segments: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, the United States (U.S.) Retail, Wealth Management and Insurance, and Wholesale Banking. The Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, which includes TD Canada Trust and TD Auto Finance Canada. The U.S. Retail segment includes TD Bank, a Convenient Bank, TD Auto Finance U.S., and TD Wealth (U.S.). The Wealth Management and Insurance segment includes TD Wealth (Canada), TD Direct Investing, and TD Insurance. The Wholesale Banking segment includes TD Securities and TD Cowen. The Bank offers a wide range of products and services, including banking accounts, financing, investment solutions, cash management (information, consolidation and reporting, payables, and receivables), U.S. banking services, global services, business credit life insurance, wealth advisory services and others.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
| YIELD ADJUSTED P/E TO GROWTH (PEG) RATIO: | PASS |
| EARNINGS PER SHARE: | PASS |
| TOTAL DEBT/EQUITY RATIO: | NEUTRAL |
| EQUITY/ASSETS RATIO: | PASS |
| RETURN ON ASSETS: | FAIL |
| FREE CASH FLOW: | NEUTRAL |
| NET CASH POSITION: | NEUTRAL |
Detailed Analysis of TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
SIRIUSPOINT LTD (SPNT) is a mid-cap value stock in the Insurance (Life) industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Peter Lynch changed from 87% to 91% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: SiriusPoint Ltd. is a Bermuda-based global underwriter of insurance and reinsurance providing solutions to clients and brokers around the world. The Company has licenses to write property and casualty and accident and health insurance and reinsurance globally. The Companys segments include Reinsurance and Insurance & Services. In the Reinsurance segment, the Company provides reinsurance products to insurance and reinsurance companies, government entities, and other risk-bearing vehicles on a treaty or facultative basis. The Reinsurance segment predominantly underwrites casualty, property and specialty lines of business on a worldwide basis. For reinsurance assumed, it participates in the reinsurance market with a global focus through the broker market distribution channel. Through the Insurance & Services segment, the Company underwrites primary insurance in a number of sectors. The Insurance & Services segment includes accident and health, casualty, and specialty.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
| P/E/GROWTH RATIO: | PASS |
| SALES AND P/E RATIO: | PASS |
| EPS GROWTH RATE: | PASS |
| TOTAL DEBT/EQUITY RATIO: | NEUTRAL |
| EQUITY/ASSETS RATIO: | PASS |
| RETURN ON ASSETS: | PASS |
| FREE CASH FLOW: | NEUTRAL |
| NET CASH POSITION: | NEUTRAL |
Detailed Analysis of SIRIUSPOINT LTD
About Peter Lynch: Perhaps the greatest mutual fund manager of all-time, Lynch guided Fidelity Investment's Magellan Fund to a 29.2 percent average annual return from 1977 until his retirement in 1990, almost doubling the S&P 500's 15.8 percent yearly return over that time. Lynch's common sense approach and quick wit made him one of the most quoted investors on Wall Street. ("Go for a business that any idiot can run -- because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it," is one of his many pearls of wisdom.) Lynch's bestseller One Up on Wall Street is something of a "stocks for the everyman/everywoman", breaking his approach down into easy-to-understand concepts.
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