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American Financial Group (AFG)

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A holding company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in property & casualty insurance, focusing on specialized commercial products for businesses, & in the sale of fixed & variable annuities & various forms of supplemental insurance products.

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Ticker Tags

Property & Casualty Insurance (9), Financials (1255), Cincinnati (11), Ohio (84), Cyclical (3415), Small Cap (1645), Casualty Insurance (73), Insurance (166), Value (1901)
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American Financial Group At A Glance

Current Price: $24.58
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $24.51
Previous Close: $24.30
Daily Range: $24.19 - $24.62
52-Week Range: $12.77 - $26.63
Volume: 418,360
Market Cap: $2.86B
P/E Ratio: 7.11
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American Financial Group (AFG)

Avatar mrindependent (99.29) Submitted: 1/20/10 8:39 PM

American Financial Group sells property and casualty insurance and fixed and variable annuities. The company currently qualifies for my Stable Dividends screen, which has outperformed the S&P 500 by 16.6% per year since January 1, 2000. Like the rest of the insurance industry, this company has see...More

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American Financial Group (AFG)

Avatar GBIGD (< 20) Submitted: 10/30/08 9:48 AM

MY MODEL TELLS ME TO MAKE THIS PICK

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Avatar ticerman (60.54) Submitted: 2/08/10 12:20 AM : Outperform Start Price: $24.31 AFG Score: 0.66

phoney moneys is going to temp. make the financial stocks move up.

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Avatar WiseChoice4u2 (77.32) Submitted: 2/04/10 6:33 PM : Outperform Start Price: $25.92 AFG Score: 6.42

Looks like a solid winner in the long-term. Catch it while it's down.

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Avatar mrindependent (99.29) Submitted: 1/20/10 8:39 PM : Outperform Start Price: $25.40 AFG Score: 2.65

American Financial Group sells property and casualty insurance and fixed and variable annuities. The company currently qualifies for my Stable Dividends screen, which has outperformed the S&P 500 by 16.6% per year since January 1, 2000. Like the rest of the insurance industry, this company has seen its fortunes improve in 2009. Current eps estimates are $4.17 per share for 2009 and $3.67 for 2010 versus eps of $1.68 in 2008. Despite this favorable trend, the company's stock is selling for a discount to historical values. Current p/bv: 0.77. Five year median p/bv: 0.98. Although the CAPS rating is a lowly 2, the Stockscouter rating is a perfect 10.

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Avatar JBouchard (99.60) Submitted: 1/07/10 2:22 PM : Outperform Start Price: $25.15 AFG Score: 3.68

Graham formula gives me a fair value estimate of $49 (based on current earnings of $3.39 and book value of $31.57) -- with the price currently at $25.25, that's a discount of over 45%.

Yes, the insurance sector still has some problems to resolve and the market's confidence has been shaken. But I think that over the next couple of years things will get better.

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Avatar TerryHogan (53.28) Submitted: 11/23/09 2:06 AM : Outperform Start Price: $24.70 AFG Score: 2.67

Focused on returning money to shareholders through dividend.

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