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Torchmark Corp (NYSE:TMK)

CAPS Rating: 2 out of 5

The Company is an insurance holding company engaged through its subsidiaries in a variety of nonparticipating ordinary life insurance products, supplemental health insurance products and Annuity products.

Current Price $47.16 Mkt Cap $4.96B
Open $46.35 P/E Ratio 8.50
Prev. Close $46.67 Div. (Yield) 0.48 (1.30%)
Daily Range $46.26 - $47.22 Volume 740,091
52-Wk Range $32.77 - $48.00 Avg. Daily Vol. 0

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97 Outperform
29 Underperform
 

All-Star Players

39 Outperform
7 Underperform
 

Wall Street

8 Outperform
4 Underperform
 

Top TMK Bull/Bear Pitches

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samedi1234 (95.40)
Submitted August 05, 2007

This is the closest a publicly traded insurance stock gets to being a franchise, along with AFLAC. It's very similar to GEICO in that it has a very low expense ratio; it has a quasi-monopoly due to its sales to unions and other organizations; and if… More

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CrazyAssAdam (< 20)
Submitted October 11, 2007

Eventually, the bigger companies such as Prudential, NY Life, NW Mutual, and AIG(plus others I am sure I missed) will crush them. I can't see them doing better than keeping up with inflation, give or take .5%

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Member Avatar GinaSB (46.46) Submitted: 8/19/2011 9:46:36 PM : Outperform Start Price: $35.91 TMK Score: +14.76

As a former insurance actuary, I like:

(1) A business model in which the company serves identified niches for life insurance, where it costs less to acquire new business compared to competitors, providing a healthier profit margin.

(2) A strategy of reducing it's emphasis on its health insurance business, thus focusing on what it writes well - life insurance.

(3) Turning an underwriting profit which reduces TMK's need to rely fully on investment income to offset insurance losses.

(4) Strong management which owns a healthy stake in the TMK

(5) Low debt to equity (0.2), ROE = 13.6 surpasses industry, 3 year avg EPS growth surpasses industry, P/B = 1.0, P/E TTM = 7.6 , selling at 16% discount to Morningstar's recently reduced fair value.

Projected dividend is 1.4%. I think this company is a keeper.

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Member Avatar MichiganBull (46.71) Submitted: 6/11/2010 3:58:43 PM : Underperform Start Price: $34.30 TMK Score: -16.00

PEG>1, S&P 1 or 2*, Reuters Underperform

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Member Avatar dcrednek (77.27) Submitted: 3/23/2010 3:08:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $28.41 TMK Score: +38.80

Not only am I placing an outperform on this stock, but I'm adding it to my list of Notable Picks. The reason for doing so is because I think that it is a particularly undervalued stock at this point. Current BV (mrq) of $40.05, EPS (mrq) of $4.88, a ROE just under 15%, and cash flow of around $11.7/share. Even after assuming an extremely conservative discount on future earnings it appears as though this company is worth $80-90/share and is currently trading around $53, a margin of safety approaching 40%.

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Score Leader

erturlib

erturlib (< 20) Score: +178.04

The Score Leader is the player with the highest score across all their picks in TMK.

Top
Pick 		Member Name Member
Rating 		Start
Date 		Call Time
Frame 		Start
Price 		Stock
Gain 		Index
Gain 		Score Commentary
erturlib < 20 3/4/2009 Outperform 3Y $12.86 +266.39% +88.35% +178.04 0 Comment
Sayder 61.00 3/12/2009 Outperform 5Y $14.32 +228.92% +81.42% +147.50 0 Comment
wriggs77 92.04 3/16/2009 Outperform NS $14.98 +214.40% +77.31% +137.09 0 Comment
CMAndersonJr 76.92 4/15/2009 Outperform 3Y $18.69 +151.99% +61.59% +90.40 1 Comment
jssmock 96.60 2/9/2009 Outperform 3Y $19.53 +141.12% +56.91% +84.22 0 Comment
ValueMrk 99.27 11/24/2008 Outperform 5Y $19.48 +141.78% +67.92% +73.86 1 Comment
groteth 66.82 5/7/2009 Outperform 5Y $21.59 +118.16% +45.66% +72.49 0 Comment
acetrader09 83.78 7/6/2009 Outperform 1Y $21.96 +114.45% +51.48% +62.97 0 Comment
demoledor 34.79 5/13/2009 Outperform 1Y $22.62 +108.20% +50.98% +57.22 1 Comment
theMovement 93.20 5/15/2009 Outperform 3Y $23.02 +104.58% +51.60% +52.98 0 Comment
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Wall Street

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Player Name Player
Rating		 Start
Date		 Call Time
Frame		 Start
Price		 Stock
Gain		 S&P
Gain		 Score End Date Commentary
TrackBarclaysCap 92.66 12/12/2011 Outperform NS $42.93 +9.71% +8.51% +1.19 0 Comment
TrackGoldmanSach 68.91 12/20/2010 Underperform 5Y $39.87 +18.12% +7.57% -10.55 1 Comment
TrackJPMorgan < 20 3/4/2010 Outperform NS $32.14 +11.04% +5.66% +5.38 4/30/2010 @ $35.69 0 Comment
TrackNorthlandSe 89.14 2/11/2010 Outperform NS $28.97 +62.57% +23.99% +38.58 0 Comment
TrackCitigroup 93.17 11/7/2009 Outperform NS $26.94 +74.82% +26.18% +48.64 0 Comment
TrackDreman 90.14 9/30/2009 Outperform NS $28.23 +66.82% +30.84% +35.98 0 Comment
TrackFBRCapitalM 84.57 7/28/2009 Outperform NS $27.03 +74.24% +37.94% +36.30 0 Comment
TrackFoxPitt < 20 5/28/2009 Outperform NS $25.44 +85.16% +51.43% +33.73 0 Comment
TrackCreditSuiss 92.65 4/23/2009 Underperform NS $17.99 +161.76% +59.93% -101.83 0 Comment
TrackBarclaysCap 92.66 4/22/2009 Underperform NS $20.07 +69.44% +31.08% -38.36 5/19/2010 @ $34.00 0 Comment
TrackCitigroup 93.17 2/17/2009 Outperform NS $18.22 +10.86% +12.92% -2.06 5/5/2009 @ $20.20 0 Comment
TrackSterneAgee 92.23 1/15/2009 Underperform NS $23.90 +97.10% +64.15% -32.95 0 Comment
TrackKBW < 20 10/22/2008 Outperform NS $24.78 -18.15% -6.80% -11.35 2/9/2009 @ $20.28 0 Comment
TrackFBRCapitalM 84.57 6/26/2008 Outperform NS $39.28 -46.54% -35.27% -11.27 1/27/2009 @ $21.00 0 Comment
TrackRichPzena 78.49 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $39.44 +19.41% -7.93% +27.35 2 Comments
TrackBuffett 91.91 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $39.44 +19.41% -7.93% +27.35 1 Comment
TrackDodgeCox 93.97 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $40.95 -3.20% -24.59% +21.39 9/30/2008 @ $39.64 1 Comment
TrackLehmanBros 86.41 1/8/2007 Underperform NS $39.72 +18.57% +1.08% -17.49 0 Comment

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