$30.83 0.21 (+0.69%)
11/6/2009 4:01 PM

Assurant, Inc. (AIZ)

CAPS Rating: 4 out of 5

Focuses on building & maintaining a portfolio of insurance businesses, leveraging a set of core capabilities, identifying & adapting to evolving market needs & centralizing certain key functions in the Corporate segment to achieve economies of scale.

Current Price $30.83 Mkt Cap $3.64B
Open $30.26 P/E Ratio 6.02
Prev. Close $30.62 Div. (Yield) 0.60 (2.00%)
Daily Range $30.10 - $30.87 Volume 1,027,562
52-Wk Range $12.52 - $33.37 Avg. Daily Vol. 1,516,000

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Wall Street

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Top AIZ Bull/Bear Pitches

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investorpoet2 (83.03)
Submitted September 18, 2009

Assurant has produced very strong and stable underwriting profits and has a conservative, fixed-income portfolio of investments. Combined, these two growth engines have produced returns on equity of over 15%. In the past, the market has rewarded this… More

jmcavalier (98.20)
Submitted July 18, 2007

As of July 17, 2007 five of Assurant's executives have come under SEC scrutiny, including the CEO (Robert Pollock) and CFO (Philip Camacho), for abuse of "loss mitigation insurance products". Further information on the case can be found… More

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Member Avatar randomvariable (99.24) Submitted: 11/6/2009 11:06:16 AM : Outperform Start Price: $30.40 AIZ Score: +1.01

Seems stable, good P/E, cash, and debt, should recover 50% or so in the coming year or two.

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Member Avatar dxdoormat (50.17) Submitted: 10/27/2009 3:57:00 PM : Outperform Start Price: $30.08 AIZ Score: +1.83

Dominant position in niche market and history of performance.

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Member Avatar NewlyMinted4Star (< 20) Submitted: 10/26/2009 2:27:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $30.23 AIZ Score: +1.60

This account tracks the performance of newly minted 4 star stocks - 3 star stocks that recently turned in to 4 star stocks.

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Score Leader

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stockcommander (97.54) Score: +72.94

The Score Leader is the member with the highest score across all their picks in AIZ.

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Member Name Member
Rating
Start
Date
Call Time
Frame
Start
Price
Stock
Gain
S&P
Gain
Score Commentary
PurplePrincess58 < 20 8/4/2008 Underperform NS $58.74 -47.51% -11.74% +35.77
dwotBuyback < 20 1/28/2008 Underperform 5Y $62.20 -50.44% -16.22% +34.22
spritecaps 63.55 1/25/2008 Underperform 3M $63.47 -51.43% -18.21% +33.21
DonLag071205 < 20 12/5/2007 Underperform NS $63.17 -51.20% -24.24% +26.96
BetterMoney77 < 20 12/12/2007 Underperform NS $63.83 -51.70% -25.70% +26.00
snappergrouper 48.59 10/5/2006 Underperform 1Y $51.74 -40.41% -15.76% +24.65
RegularRod 98.48 11/12/2008 Outperform 5Y $20.84 +47.93% +24.60% +23.33
patron4 < 20 3/10/2009 Outperform 3Y $17.70 +74.17% +54.86% +19.31
1numerouno1 62.60 12/11/2008 Outperform 5Y $22.10 +39.52% +22.20% +17.32
belbiv 76.77 3/12/2009 Outperform 1Y $18.52 +66.46% +50.13% +16.33

Wall Street

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Member Name Member
Rating
Start
Date
Call Time
Frame
Start
Price
Stock
Gain
S&P
Gain
Score End Date Commentary
TrackJPMorgan 78.71 12/19/2008 Outperform NS $26.60 +15.91% +22.36% -6.45
TrackSunTrustRH 89.33 1/18/2008 Outperform NS $62.90 -49.32% -17.38% -31.94 10/9/2009 @ $31.88
TrackDreman 89.07 12/31/2007 Outperform NS $64.73 -52.37% -23.64% -28.73 2 Comments
TrackKeyBanc 90.40 10/23/2007 Outperform NS $55.34 -44.29% -25.89% -18.40
TrackHAndW 23.63 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $53.30 +25.27% -3.67% +28.94 12/31/2007 @ $66.77 1 Comment
TrackJohnKeeley < 20 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $51.67 -40.33% -26.44% -13.90 1 Comment
TrackRonBaron < 20 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $51.67 -40.33% -26.44% -13.90 1 Comment
TrackJimCramer < 20 9/19/2007 Underperform 3W $50.05 -38.40% -26.47% +11.93
TrackWachovia 35.10 8/23/2007 Outperform NS $51.11 -56.09% -39.31% -16.78 5/13/2009 @ $22.44
TrackCitigroup 21.22 3/12/2007 Outperform NS $51.90 -40.60% -19.02% -21.58

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