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Company snapshot — Empire Company Limited

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

What it does
Empire runs food retail and property operations across Canada through two segments: Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. It owns, franchises or supplies grocery banners such as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's and Lawtons Drugs, plus online grocery under the Voilà names, and it runs some retail fuel sites. The group was founded in 1907 and is based in Stellarton, Canada.
Where it sits in the stack
Empire carries no seat in our index. It sits in the Consumer Defensive sector of our universe, in the grocery-store part of that sleeve, alongside Canadian food and staples retailers.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with Consumer Defensive names based in Canada — Dollarama, George Weston and Molson Coors Canada; the market also names Loblaw as a direct grocery competitor.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with capital allocation or valuation reading as the strongest module and quality the weakest; it holds no index seat and has drawn no quotes in the diary so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak quality reading persists as the retail segment reports, and whether the stock's pull-back from its high stabilises or deepens against the 50-day and 200-day trend.

Empire Company Limited (EMP-A.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Consumer Defensive.

The Closelook company score reads 45/100 composite (momentum 37, quality 27, valuation 62) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’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.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for EMP-A.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Grocery Stores · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Grocery Stores

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

Compared against EMP-A.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.97%, quarterly · buybacks 400 m CAD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 0.90 CAD per share · a 1.97% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +45.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.62 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.24 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.84 CAD · 2026: 0.68 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-15
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 203 m CAD 27% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2026 400 m CAD 3.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −3.9% in FY2026 10 m CAD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 603 m CAD · 56% 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.

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 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Empire Company Limited (EMP-A.TO)?

Empire Company Limited trades as EMP-A.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Consumer Defensive in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is EMP-A.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Empire Company Limited is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Empire Company Limited's Closelook composite score?

45 out of 100, with momentum 37, quality 27 and valuation 62 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does EMP-A.TO trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -6% vs the 50-day and -4.6% vs the 200-day average, 12.9% below the 52-week high and +5.6% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 52 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Empire Company Limited do?

Empire runs food retail and property operations across Canada through two segments: Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. It owns, franchises or supplies grocery banners such as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's and Lawtons Drugs, plus online grocery under the Voilà names, and it runs some retail fuel sites. The group was founded in 1907 and is based in Stellarton, Canada. Closelook's peer group places it with Consumer Defensive names based in Canada — Dollarama, George Weston and Molson Coors Canada; the market also names Loblaw as a direct grocery competitor.

Where does Empire Company Limited sit in the AI build-out?

Empire carries no seat in our index. It sits in the Consumer Defensive sector of our universe, in the grocery-store part of that sleeve, alongside Canadian food and staples retailers. It carries a Closelook score, with capital allocation or valuation reading as the strongest module and quality the weakest; it holds no index seat and has drawn no quotes in the diary so far.

Does Empire Company Limited pay a dividend?

Empire Company Limited has paid 0.90 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.97% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.24 CAD on 2026-07-15. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 203 m CAD in dividends and bought back 400 m CAD of its own shares, 56% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 3.9% 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 EMP-A.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Grocery Stores, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelook 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.