Quality Earnings: ALA has a large one-off gain of CA$666.9M impacting its September 30 2020 financial results.
Growing Profit Margin: ALA's current net profit margins (6.1%) are lower than last year (18.4%).
Past Earnings Growth Analysis
Earnings Trend: ALA's earnings have grown significantly by 36.4% per year over the past 5 years.
Accelerating Growth: ALA's has had negative earnings growth over the past year, so it can't be compared to its 5-year average.
Earnings vs Industry: ALA had negative earnings growth (-68%) over the past year, making it difficult to compare to the Gas Utilities industry average (14.7%).
Return on Equity
High ROE: ALA's Return on Equity (5.4%) is considered low.
How experienced are the management team and are they aligned to shareholders interests?
4.1yrs
Average management tenure
CEO
Randy Crawford (57 yo)
2.08yrs
Tenure
CA$7,841,594
Compensation
Mr. Randall L. Crawford, also known as Randy, has been the Chief Executive Officer, President and a Non-Independent Director at AltaGas Ltd. since December 10, 2018. He serves as Director at WGL Holdings, ...
CEO Compensation Analysis
Compensation vs Market: Randy's total compensation ($USD6.16M) is above average for companies of similar size in the Canadian market ($USD2.98M).
Compensation vs Earnings: Randy's compensation has increased by more than 20% whilst company earnings have fallen more than 20% in the past year.
Leadership Team
Name
Position
Tenure
Compensation
Ownership
Randall Crawford
President
2.08yrs
CA$7.84m
0.025% CA$ 1.4m
D. Harbilas
Executive VP & CFO
1.58yrs
CA$3.05m
0.017% CA$ 933.0k
Bradley Grant
Executive VP & Chief Legal Officer
5.67yrs
CA$2.28m
0.0022% CA$ 122.7k
Randy Toone
Executive VP & President of Midstream
4.08yrs
CA$2.33m
0.0053% CA$ 296.4k
Corine Renne Bushfield
Executive VP & Chief Administrative Officer
4.08yrs
CA$1.76m
0.0027% CA$ 150.2k
Jess Nieukerk
Senior Director of Investor Relations
no data
no data
no data
Kent Stout
Senior Vice President of Organizational Development
4.08yrs
CA$991.41k
no data
Joy Thakur
Senior Vice President of Commercial & Business Operations
no data
CA$722.72k
no data
John O'Brien
Executive VP of Government & Regulatory Affairs - ASUS and EVP of Strategy & Public Affairs - WG
no data
CA$2.14m
no data
James Shelford
Senior Vice President of Commercial
no data
no data
no data
Fredrick Dalena
Executive Vice President of Commercial Strategy & Business Development
2.08yrs
no data
no data
David Anderson
Senior Vice President of Corporate Environmental Health & Safety
no data
no data
no data
4.1yrs
Average Tenure
50yo
Average Age
Experienced Management: ALA's management team is considered experienced (4.1 years average tenure).
Board Members
Name
Position
Tenure
Compensation
Ownership
Randall Crawford
President
2.08yrs
CA$7.84m
0.025% CA$ 1.4m
Robert Hodgins
Independent Director
15.83yrs
CA$235.11k
0.0061% CA$ 340.2k
Allan Edgeworth
Independent Director
15.83yrs
CA$222.11k
0.017% CA$ 945.4k
Terry McCallister
Non-Independent Director
2.5yrs
CA$239.17k
0.016% CA$ 882.0k
David Cornhill
Independent Director
26.75yrs
CA$281.17k
0.57% CA$ 31.9m
Nancy Tower
Independent Director
1yr
no data
0.0022% CA$ 125.5k
Pentti Karkkainen
Independent Chairman of the Board
1.75yrs
CA$320.58k
0.0061% CA$ 340.7k
Phillip Knoll
Independent Director
5.17yrs
CA$224.23k
0.0081% CA$ 456.7k
Cynthia Johnston
Independent Director
2.5yrs
CA$218.79k
0.0022% CA$ 120.5k
Linda Sullivan
Independent Director
1yr
no data
no data
Victoria Calvert
Independent Director
5.17yrs
CA$216.18k
0.0027% CA$ 153.0k
2.5yrs
Average Tenure
65yo
Average Age
Experienced Board: ALA's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 2.5 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.
Ownership
Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?
Insider Trading Volume
Insider Buying: ALA insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.
Recent Insider Transactions
Ownership Breakdown
Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.
Top Shareholders
Company Information
AltaGas Ltd.'s company bio, employee growth, exchange listings and data sources
AltaGas Ltd. operates as a diversified energy infrastructure company in North America. The company operates through three segments: Utilities, Midstream, and Power. The Utilities segment owns and operates ...
Company Analysis and Financial Data Status
All financial data provided by Standard & Poor's Capital IQ.
Data
Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis
2021/01/17 00:14
End of Day Share Price
2021/01/15 00:00
Earnings
2020/09/30
Annual Earnings
2019/12/31
Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.