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Hallmark Financial Services, Inc. (HALL)

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A diversified property/casualty insurance group that serves businesses and individuals in specialty and niche markets. It offers standard commercial insurance, specialty commercial insurance and personal insurance in selected market subcategories.

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Ticker Tags

Value (1901), Insurance (166), Micro Cap (4701), Financials (1255), Cyclical (3415)
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Hallmark Financial Services, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $7.46
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $7.49
Previous Close: $7.41
Daily Range: $7.42 - $7.49
52-Week Range: $5.98 - $8.75
Volume: 7,605
Market Cap: $150.05M
P/E Ratio: 12.15
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Avatar hondo928 (99.78) Submitted: 10/18/07 12:12 PM

Just added a real life position in this stock, for the short term looking for maybe 18.50- optimistic 20 a share. Although I do have a stop in at 14.50, where if it drops below I will look to see if there's still upside. The stock is under heavy acquisition and the company fast moving growing earn...More

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Avatar smallcapbigyield (< 20) Submitted: 6/17/08 7:50 PM : Underperform Start Price: $11.02 HALL Score: 14.95

I wouldn't be surprised if HALL falls off the NASDAQ completely. I just don't see much that's inspiring about their management at present... 1Q results like theirs can eat a little organization alive (esp. when they have unproven board members at the helm).

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Avatar BobinSECO (52.46) Submitted: 6/17/08 11:12 AM : Outperform Start Price: $11.16 HALL Score: -14.57

Forward earnings for FY2009 isn't their strongest suit, but at today's price in the low 11's and FY2008 forecast earnings of $1.37, I'll jump in here with an outperform.

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Avatar mussiearaya (< 20) Submitted: 6/07/08 7:41 AM : Outperform Start Price: $11.50 HALL Score: -16.26

slowly but surely should outperform the market

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Avatar NoTouch5Yr (95.35) Submitted: 5/22/08 5:57 PM : Outperform Start Price: $11.38 HALL Score: -14.46

As with all my picks: A very attractive P/E, excellent EPS growth rate and high five year growth prospects.

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Avatar BetterBizBooks (< 20) Submitted: 5/07/08 1:15 AM : Outperform Start Price: $11.37 HALL Score: -12.71

Insurance play with tons of room for growth. Well diversified, selling in niche markets as well. The companies growth rates (revenue and EPS) have done exceptionally well over the last few years.





This stock is like Markel at a much smaller stage ($225 million vs. $2.5 billion for markel).

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