Brookfield Asset Management & GIC Agreed to Acquire Genesee & Wyoming Inc

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC on Monday agreed to buy U.S. freight railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming Inc for about $6.4 billion in cash. Brookfield and GIC’s offer of $112 per share represents a premium of 12% to Genesee’s closing price on Friday.

The insider ownership percentage is the key indicator, can be used by investors, to measure the outlook of senior management has on their company. Insider ownership for the BAM is 12.90%. Institutional ownership refers to the ownership stake in a company that is held by large financial organizations, pension funds or endowments. The Institutional ownership for the BAM is 61.40%.

Insider trading is the buying or selling of any publicly traded company’s stock and this can be done by someone who has non-public, material information about that BAM. Insider trading can be illegal or legal depending on when the insider makes the trade. It is illegal when the material information is still non-public. The insider transactions of the company (6-month change in insider ownerships) for the Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) is 0.00%.

Institutional ownership is the amount of a Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM)’s available stock owned by mutual or pension funds, insurance companies, investment firms, private foundations, endowments or other large entities that actually manage the funds on the behalf of others, so its an interesting element for the traders to note it, and the Institutional ownership for the BAM is 0.35%.

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Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) stock edged up 0.92% on Monday and when day-trade ended the stock finally concluded at $48.22 and number of shares that changed hands during the day are 1.37 Million. The number of shares BAM stock currently held by all its shareholders are 993.53 and floated shares, the number of shares are available for trading in an open market on last trading day are 851.97. The average volume of shares for 3 months is 1411.09 and BAM stock value has moved between $36.53 – 48.71 in last one year.

The Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM)’s latest earnings date is 8/8/2019. The Gross margin is the difference between the revenue and the cost of goods sold (COGS), divided by revenue. In other words, Gross Margin is a percentage value, while Gross Profit is a monetary value. The valuable gross margin for Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) is 20.80% and the profit margin is 5.40% and the stock has gained 25.74% in 2019 to date.

U.S. traded shares of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM)’s monthly stock performance is 5.17%, the quarterly performance is 1.92%, the half year performance is calculated as 26.93%. The yearly performance of BAM is 20.55%.

The higher the volatility, the riskier the security. For example, when the stock market rises and falls more than one percent over a sustained period of time, it is called a “volatile” market, if the stock price stays relatively stable, the security has low volatility. The Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) weekly volatility is measured as 0.89% and monthly volatility measured as 1.07%.

Return on assets (ROA) is a main indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. BAM return on assets is 1.30%, the return on equity (ROE) of the Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) is 12.90%, while the most important return on investment is calculates as a percentage and is typically used for personal financial decisions, and BAM return on investment is 5.10%.

The price to earnings ratio is 14.75, price to sales ratio is 0.81, and price to book ratio is 1.75, price to cash per share ration is 7.11, price to free cash flow is 18.72.

Analysts mean target price for Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:BAM) is $55.50 while analysts mean recommendation is 1.90. The current share price indicates that stock is -1.07% away from its one year high and is moving 31.82% ahead of its 52-week low. BAM’s distance from 20 day simple moving average is 1.55% and distance from 50-Day simple moving average is 1.71%.