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$1.22 -0.08 (-6.15%)
7/18/2008 3:58 PM

Alesco Financial, Inc. (AFN)

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A specialty finance company formed to invest primarily in certain target asset classes.

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AFN doesn't currently meet the $100M market cap / $1.50 stock price minimum. (Learn More)

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Total Players

171 Outperforms
91 Underperforms
 

All-Stars

33 Outperforms
60 Underperforms
 

Wall Street

1 Outperforms
1 Underperforms
 

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Ticker Tags

Micro Cap (4824), Mortgage Investment (34)
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Alesco Financial, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $1.22
Last Trade Time: 7/18/2008 3:58 PM
Open: $1.12
Previous Close: $1.30
Daily Range: $1.11 - $1.30
52-Week Range: $0.80 - $7.12
Volume: 360,401
Market Cap: $77.45M
P/E Ratio: 2.09
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Top Bull Pitch

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Alesco Financial, Inc. (AFN)

Avatar pytheian (77.20) Submitted: 5/05/08 4:12 PM

27% yield on this REIT. Only two questions

1. Can they keep it up (obviously assumes no bankruptcy)?
2. Can they maintain their REIT status (otherwise potential for double taxation)?

Mgmt represents that they've:

1. Taken all their medicine (written down assets to market value)
2. Freed up cash
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Alesco Financial, Inc. (AFN)

Avatar NeroSagetrade (90.13) Submitted: 12/12/07 10:26 PM

Alesco is a financial disaster and we may just be seeing the tip of that iceberg here. AFN was forced to absorb over 500 million in writedowns last quarter and yet they defiantly have decided to pay out their regular quarterly dividend. They have a huge negative book valuation of $20 per share, a ma...More

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 (AFN)

Avatar TMFActionJackson (87.18) Submitted: 6/09/08 5:01 PM : Underperform Start Price: $2.43 AFN Score: 42.70

Following DWOT on this underperform.

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 (AFN)

Avatar bbubbba (57.14) Submitted: 6/08/08 5:58 PM : Outperform Start Price: $2.55 AFN Score: -44.09

Way over sold and will correct as sector turns around!

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 (AFN)

Avatar star60629 (< 20) Submitted: 5/22/08 4:34 PM : Outperform Start Price: $2.22 AFN Score: -35.76

Yielding 40% Will come thru this crisis

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 (AFN)

Avatar AntiRonChapmanJr (99.95) Submitted: 5/16/08 2:09 AM : Underperform Start Price: $2.58 AFN Score: 41.08

Cause I said so.

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 (AFN)

Avatar EnigmaDude (98.57) Submitted: 5/15/08 1:30 PM : Outperform Start Price: $2.57 AFN Score: -41.37

got some CDOs sorted out. Now it will take off again.

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TrackRBCCapMkts 90.79 05/08/08 05/08/08 Underperform NS $3.79-67.78%-9.83%+57.95
TrackOppenheimer < 20 01/12/07 01/12/07 Outperform NS $7.47-83.67%-11.31%-72.37

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