Flaherty Crumrine Preferred Fund Retained Earnings

FFC Fund  USD 16.24  0.11  0.67%   
Flaherty Crumrine Preferred fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Flaherty Crumrine's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Flaherty Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Flaherty Crumrine'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 Flaherty Crumrine fund.
  
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Flaherty Crumrine Preferred Fund Retained Earnings Analysis

Flaherty Crumrine's Retained Earnings is a balance sheet account that refers to the portion of company income that is retained by the firm. In other words, it is a part of earnings that is not paid out as dividends or otherwise distributed to owners. Retained Earnings are calculated by adding net income to last period retained earnings and subtracting any dividends paid to owners.

Retained Earnings

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Beginning RE + Income

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Dividends

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Current Flaherty Crumrine Retained Earnings

    
  (656.2 M)  
Most of Flaherty Crumrine's fundamental indicators, such as Retained Earnings, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Flaherty Crumrine Preferred is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Retained Earnings shows how the firm utilizes its profits over time. In simple terms, investors can think of retained earnings as the amount of profit the company has reinvested in the business since its inceptions. However the methodology to make a decision over how much profit to retain is different between companies in different industries. For example, growing industries tend to retain more of their earnings than more matured industries as they need more assets investment to sustain their growth.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Flaherty Crumrine Preferred has a Retained Earnings of (656.2 Million). This is much lower than that of the Financial Services family and significantly lower than that of the Asset Management category. The retained earnings for all United States funds is notably higher than that of the company.

Flaherty Retained Earnings Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Flaherty Crumrine's direct or indirect competition against its Retained Earnings to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Flaherty Crumrine could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Flaherty Crumrine by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Flaherty Crumrine is currently under evaluation in retained earnings among similar funds.

Flaherty Fundamentals

About Flaherty Crumrine Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Flaherty Crumrine Preferred's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Flaherty Crumrine using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Flaherty Crumrine Preferred based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this fund, 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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Flaherty Crumrine financial ratios help investors to determine whether Flaherty Fund 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 Flaherty with respect to the benefits of owning Flaherty Crumrine security.
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