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EMP-A.TO Empire Company Limited
TO CAD Consumer Defensive
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As of 30 Oct 2026
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Market facts
- Market cap
- 11B
- P/E ratio
- 51.41
- Analyst target
- 53.5
- Dividend yield
- 1.7%
- Beta
- 0.3
Profile
Instrument facts
- Exchange
- TO
- Currency
- CAD
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Grocery Stores
- ISIN
- CA2918434077
- Market cap
- 11B
- P/E ratio
- 51.41
- Analyst target
- 53.5
- Dividend yield
- 1.7%
- Beta
- 0.3
About
About Empire Company Limited
Empire Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the food retail and related real estate businesses in Canada. It operates through two segments, Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. The company owns, affiliates, and franchises retail stores under the Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's, and Lawtons Drugs brands; operates grocery e-commerce stores under the Voilà, Voilà par IGA, IGA.net, and ThriftyFoods.com; and operates and/or supplies retail fuel locations. Empire Company Limited was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Stellarton, Canada.
Research context
Empire Company Limited appears in PyInvesting’s Toronto Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
- Currency
- CAD
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Grocery Stores
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5 years, 6 months ago
Empire Company Limited is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 3.6% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 99.9% cheaper than other stocks from the Consumer Defensive sector with a price to sales ratio of 0.4.
Empire Company Limited's total revenue rose by 9.7% to $7B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 46.3% to $176M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 31.4% to $435M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Empire Company Limited gets an overall score of 5/5.