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Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH.TO) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for FFH.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Insurance - Property & Casualty · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Property & Casualty

Names in the same industry from the Closelooknet universe; scored names rank on their Closelooknet score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against FFH.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd

FFH.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Fairfax Financial Holdings underwrites property and casualty insurance and reinsurance through its subsidiaries, covering property, casualty, marine and specialty risks. It also runs a life insurance and run-off book, and holds a wide set of non-insurance businesses spanning restaurants, retail, agriculture and hospitality. The group manages its own investment portfolio alongside these operations, and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Where it sits in the stack
Fairfax carries no seat in our index, so the diary tracks it within its Financial Services sector coverage, in the Insurance - Property & Casualty industry inside Canada. It is not a constituent of our AI build-out index but sits among the diary's broader financial-services universe, watched as a diversified insurer and investor rather than as a stack constraint.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names based in Canada — Manulife, Power Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada, Sun Life, CIBC, IGM Financial, Intact Financial and Bank of Nova Scotia. The market also compares it with Berkshire Hathaway, given its own mix of underwriting and long-term investing.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score, with valuation the strongest module and momentum the weakest; the diary notes no index seat, edition mention or quote for it currently.
What the diary watches
Whether gains or losses in its investment portfolio start to move the momentum reading, given how far the shares sit below their recent high.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelooknet company score reads 50/100 composite (momentum 34, quality 58, valuation 67) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.94%, annual · buybacks 2.55 bn CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What FFH.TO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 20.82 CAD per share · a 0.94% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year −3.2% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 21.50 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 20.82 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-01-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 21.50 CAD · 2026: 20.82 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-16
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 368 m CAD 12% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 2.55 bn CAD 5.5% of today's market value
  • Share count −7.6% in FY2025 177 m CAD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 2.92 bn CAD · 122% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH.TO)?

Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd trades as FFH.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is FFH.TO in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

What is Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd's Closelooknet composite score?

50 out of 100, with momentum 34, quality 58 and valuation 67 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does FFH.TO trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -3% vs the 50-day and -4.9% vs the 200-day average, 17.4% below the 52-week high and +7.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Insurance - Property & Casualty), Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH.TO) sits 17.4% below its 52-week high, 3.0% below its 50-day average; Definity Financial Corp (DFY.TO) is 19.2% below, W. R. Berkley Corp (WRB) is 10.1% below, Progressive Corp (PGR) is 11.4% below. Put any of them next to FFH.TO in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd do?

Fairfax Financial Holdings underwrites property and casualty insurance and reinsurance through its subsidiaries, covering property, casualty, marine and specialty risks. It also runs a life insurance and run-off book, and holds a wide set of non-insurance businesses spanning restaurants, retail, agriculture and hospitality. The group manages its own investment portfolio alongside these operations, and is based in Toronto, Canada. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names based in Canada — Manulife, Power Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada, Sun Life, CIBC, IGM Financial, Intact Financial and Bank of Nova Scotia. The market also compares it with Berkshire Hathaway, given its own mix of underwriting and long-term investing.

Where does Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

Fairfax carries no seat in our index, so the diary tracks it within its Financial Services sector coverage, in the Insurance - Property & Casualty industry inside Canada. It is not a constituent of our AI build-out index but sits among the diary's broader financial-services universe, watched as a diversified insurer and investor rather than as a stack constraint. It carries a Closelooknet score, with valuation the strongest module and momentum the weakest; the diary notes no index seat, edition mention or quote for it currently.

Does Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd pay a dividend?

Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd has paid 20.82 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.94% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 20.82 CAD on 2026-01-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 368 m CAD in dividends and bought back 2.55 bn CAD of its own shares, 122% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 7.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for FFH.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Insurance - Property & Casualty, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.