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Company snapshot — Definity Financial Corp

DFY.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
Definity Financial is a property-and-casualty insurer operating in Canada, selling personal cover such as auto, home and pet insurance under brands including Economical, Sonnet and Petline, alongside commercial lines for fleets, property and liability risks sold to small and mid-market firms. It reaches customers mainly through brokers and intermediaries, with some direct-to-consumer sales, and is based in Waterloo, Ontario.
Where it sits in the stack
Definity sits outside our AI-build-out coverage; it belongs to the financial services sector, within the property-and-casualty insurance sleeve of our broader universe, and is not assessed against any Closelook index.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group has not yet been built for this name; the comparison the market draws is with other Canadian property-and-casualty insurers such as Intact Financial.
Why Closelook tracks it
Definity holds no seat in our indices and carries no Closelook score yet, so the diary has not built a scored view of it and notes no quotes on record.
What the diary watches
Whether claims costs from weather events or shifts in reinsurance pricing move underwriting margins enough to change how the diary reads this name.

Definity Financial Corp (DFY.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada.

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 DFY.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

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

Peer group

Insurance - Property & Casualty

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

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

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.13%, quarterly · buybacks 12 m CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 0.83 CAD per share · a 1.13% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +47.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.56 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.22 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-11
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.75 CAD (partial) · 2026: 0.65 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-12
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 89 m CAD 21% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 12 m CAD 0.1% of today's market value
  • Share count +2.2% in FY2025 31 m CAD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 101 m CAD · 24% 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 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · 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 → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Definity Financial Corp (DFY.TO)?

Definity Financial Corp trades as DFY.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is DFY.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Definity Financial Corp is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does DFY.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -3.9% vs the 50-day and +3.4% vs the 200-day average, 11.1% below the 52-week high and +19% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 54 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Definity Financial Corp do?

Definity Financial is a property-and-casualty insurer operating in Canada, selling personal cover such as auto, home and pet insurance under brands including Economical, Sonnet and Petline, alongside commercial lines for fleets, property and liability risks sold to small and mid-market firms. It reaches customers mainly through brokers and intermediaries, with some direct-to-consumer sales, and is based in Waterloo, Ontario. Closelook's peer group has not yet been built for this name; the comparison the market draws is with other Canadian property-and-casualty insurers such as Intact Financial.

Where does Definity Financial Corp sit in the AI build-out?

Definity sits outside our AI-build-out coverage; it belongs to the financial services sector, within the property-and-casualty insurance sleeve of our broader universe, and is not assessed against any Closelook index. Definity holds no seat in our indices and carries no Closelook score yet, so the diary has not built a scored view of it and notes no quotes on record.

Does Definity Financial Corp pay a dividend?

Definity Financial Corp has paid 0.83 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.13% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.22 CAD on 2026-09-11. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 89 m CAD in dividends and bought back 12 m CAD of its own shares, 24% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 2.2% 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 DFY.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 - Property & Casualty, 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.