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Company snapshot — Power Corporation Of Canada

POW.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
Power Corporation of Canada is a holding company that owns stakes in financial businesses across Lifeco, IGM Financial and GBL, its three reporting segments. Through these it offers life, health and disability insurance, annuities and pension products, wealth and asset management for advisors, and some fintech investments. It is based in Montreal and operates across North America, Europe and Asia.
Where it sits in the stack
Power Corporation carries no seat in our index and sits outside the Rubin build-out map; the diary follows it as part of the Financial Services sleeve of the Canadian universe, alongside the country's large insurers and banks.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group groups it with other scored Financial Services names based in Canada, including Manulife, Sun Life, Great-West Lifeco, IGM Financial, Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, Bank of Nova Scotia and Intact Financial; the market also names it alongside other diversified Canadian financial holding groups.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with momentum the strongest module and valuation the weakest; it holds no index seat and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
Whether the underlying segments — insurance at Lifeco, wealth management at IGM, and the European holdings at GBL — move together or diverge enough to change how the parent is read.

Power Corporation Of Canada (POW.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelook company score reads 58/100 composite (momentum 84, quality 76, valuation 63) 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 POW.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Life · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Life

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

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

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.71%, quarterly · buybacks 1.89 bn CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 2.56 CAD per share · a 2.71% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +109.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.23 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.67 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.45 CAD (partial) · 2026: 1.34 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-31
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.59 bn CAD 47% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 1.89 bn CAD 3.2% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.9% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 3.48 bn CAD · 84% 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 Power Corporation Of Canada (POW.TO)?

Power Corporation Of Canada trades as POW.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is POW.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Power Corporation Of Canada is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Power Corporation Of Canada's Closelook composite score?

58 out of 100, with momentum 84, quality 76 and valuation 63 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does POW.TO trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +1.8% vs the 50-day and +21.2% vs the 200-day average, 3.2% below the 52-week high and +71.2% off the 52-week low. 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 Power Corporation Of Canada do?

Power Corporation of Canada is a holding company that owns stakes in financial businesses across Lifeco, IGM Financial and GBL, its three reporting segments. Through these it offers life, health and disability insurance, annuities and pension products, wealth and asset management for advisors, and some fintech investments. It is based in Montreal and operates across North America, Europe and Asia. Closelook's peer group groups it with other scored Financial Services names based in Canada, including Manulife, Sun Life, Great-West Lifeco, IGM Financial, Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, Bank of Nova Scotia and Intact Financial; the market also names it alongside other diversified Canadian financial holding groups.

Where does Power Corporation Of Canada sit in the AI build-out?

Power Corporation carries no seat in our index and sits outside the Rubin build-out map; the diary follows it as part of the Financial Services sleeve of the Canadian universe, alongside the country's large insurers and banks. It carries a Closelook score, with momentum the strongest module and valuation the weakest; it holds no index seat and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does Power Corporation Of Canada pay a dividend?

Power Corporation Of Canada has paid 2.56 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.71% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.67 CAD on 2026-06-30. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.59 bn CAD in dividends and bought back 1.89 bn CAD of its own shares, 84% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.9% 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 POW.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 Insurance - Life, then Financial Services. 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.