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American Capital, Ltd. (ACAS)

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The Company is a business development company that also serves as publicly traded alternative asset manager.

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American Capital, Ltd. At A Glance

Current Price: $3.23
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $3.27
Previous Close: $3.21
Daily Range: $3.18 - $3.32
52-Week Range: $0.58 - $5.56
Volume: 2,263,488
Market Cap: $907.12M
P/E Ratio: 4.52
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American Capital, Ltd. (ACAS)

Avatar jabifool (< 20) Submitted: 12/19/09 7:42 AM

ACAS is currently (12/18/09) trading at about 34% of book value, primarily due to concerns re: its covenant breach capital lenders. As compared to most other BDC's (AINV, ARCC, PSEC), with value/ book ratio of 0.9 - 1.05, the discount applied to the V/B ratio, given the risk, is 60% and higher. Give...More

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American Capital, Ltd. (ACAS)

Avatar negrodamus (87.89) Submitted: 1/18/10 3:34 PM

Still haven't sorted out their debt issues... At this point it's looking like there's no happy end in sight - over the next couple of weeks we'll either hear of a bankrupcy or a "deal" with very unfavourable terms for ACAS.

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Avatar DavidSobel (38.25) Submitted: 2/08/10 5:16 PM : Outperform Start Price: $3.63 ACAS Score: -8.69

I am going to give them a second chance

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Avatar aa46 (< 20) Submitted: 2/07/10 3:35 PM : Underperform Start Price: $3.26 ACAS Score: 1.67

financials will not be percived as safe havens for the next few months espically low caps. people will shift funds to low cap stocks with minimal ties to the financial sector. siri is a good example of this/the stock is up significantls without the value to back it up//

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Avatar tobyg74 (64.53) Submitted: 1/26/10 11:27 PM : Outperform Start Price: $3.74 ACAS Score: -11.85

yo

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Avatar negrodamus (87.89) Submitted: 1/18/10 3:34 PM : Underperform Start Price: $3.80 ACAS Score: 9.37

Still haven't sorted out their debt issues... At this point it's looking like there's no happy end in sight - over the next couple of weeks we'll either hear of a bankrupcy or a "deal" with very unfavourable terms for ACAS.

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Avatar EclecticRecluse (74.33) Submitted: 1/18/10 2:52 AM : Outperform Start Price: $3.80 ACAS Score: -9.37

Low P/E with Movement Potential

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