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$4.89 -0.74 (-13.14%)
7/24/2008 9:52 AM

Advance America, Cash Advance Centers (AEA)

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The Company is a provider of payday cash advance services in the United States.

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180 Outperforms
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Financial Services (32), Small Cap (1922), Dividend (202), Credit Services (49)
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Advance America, Cash Advance Centers At A Glance

Current Price: $4.89
Last Trade Time: 7/24/2008 9:52 AM
Open: $5.24
Previous Close: $5.63
Daily Range: $4.60 - $5.28
52-Week Range: $4.86 - $17.60
Volume: 90,483
Market Cap: $363.50M
P/E Ratio: 9.54
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Avatar austinhippie (89.66) Submitted: 6/29/08 3:56 PM

PEGY .42

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Avatar victorcwong (< 20) Submitted: 8/25/06 2:44 AM

govt may look into price gouging because of military families in hock.

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Avatar austinhippie (89.66) Submitted: 6/29/08 3:56 PM : Outperform Start Price: $5.19 AEA Score: -0.59

PEGY .42

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Avatar 5000monkey (42.30) Submitted: 6/02/08 1:34 PM : Outperform Start Price: $6.78 AEA Score: -16.39

I hate these types of payday loan services but with america tightening its belt this more and more people are going to turn to payday loans. With this stock beat down low enough to offer a 7% dividend I'm in.

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Avatar shackindawoods (< 20) Submitted: 5/17/08 12:58 PM : Underperform Start Price: $7.15 AEA Score: 17.46

Excellent stock to short. We wont even get into the sleeze/slime factor, the conventional wisdom that a falling economy will help these businesses is dead wrong this time. THIS time around customers simply WONT HAVE checks to cash and will walk away from any loans just like home owners are walking from mortgages. Also, belt-tightening severity will soon reach that tipping point where cost of the service is too high. This will be then next financial sector domino.





Another good one to short is RentaCenter (RCII).

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Avatar sknnyftn (< 20) Submitted: 4/09/08 11:48 PM : Outperform Start Price: $7.78 AEA Score: -28.20

This line of business will only get more profitable in our current economy. There's a chance the earnings will drop when the economic stimulus checks come out, but overall they should increase throughout the year.

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Avatar jayeasy (25.86) Submitted: 3/25/08 2:07 AM : Outperform Start Price: $7.15 AEA Score: -22.75

bargain stock set to rise

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