The Allstate Corp (ALL)

New Alliance quoting system to streamline sales efficency. Allstate is enhancing the sales opportunities with an enhanced lead and follow thru system

insurance company is rebounding from major hurricaine $$ from two years ago.

Can't afford to pay Katrina and 9/11 claims

Low Pe, 52 Week Low, Nice Dividend 2.6%, Buying Back Shares, Large Cap which are due for a run after 5 years of underperformance compared to Mid's and Small Caps.

Allstate has a strong balance sheet, sound underwriting, and less exposure to catastrophic losses today than ever in the past. Allstate will grow its earnings, buy back shares, raise it's dividend and by the end of 2007 will have outperformed the market.

Based on the fact that Allstate just won my business from Geico, along with the attractive P/E ratio (7.6) and dividend yield, I'm giving ALL thumbs up. Medium/long term I'm not sure about the leadership, and the impact of an intense expected hurricane season. At the moment, however, this looks undervalued.

P/E at a 5 year low. Great value.

Insurance for home and auto, mortgages, life insurance, and investments. Baring a major disaster this stock just goes up and up. They even set up protection for a major disaster. with reinsurance, cancellations in FL and LA, and Hurricaine and earthquake state run funds.

Very solid fundamentals.
EPS 2008: 3.22 p/e: 9.18
EPS 2009: 3.42 p/e 8.64
EPS 2010: 4.2 p/e 7.04

Good dividend, good growth prospects, and a reasonable P/E. Very strong fundamentals.

Corrupt managers, team groomed and picked by Allstate CEO, Ed Liddy before he left for AIG to run it, yes, one of the largest INS..CO.'s in the world...Managed by the biggest crook, the AIG that was first to be bailedout, then they all went to Resort...That Ed Liddy. His winning ways of management are still at Allstate Ins. today. Balance sheets show cash from other companies owned by them, loaned to cover quarterly reports...never a bad day, that way. Experts at paying consulting companies...owned by family and board members. They just don't regulate them like they used to...Stockholders beware.

Relatively strong long term growth.

Hurricane season appears to be minimal and their premiums are up so they should show "better than expected" quarterly results!

Solid company undervalued

Like this play long-term.

Going to track in my CAPS portfolio short-term and hopefully find a good entry point with real $$

Good value play now - overreaction

a good insurance company

A very good value at this time.

The insurance business has a number af factors that make it a good long term investment. It will not go out of fashion, it's premiums tend to grow with or faster than the undelying liabilities over time, and there is no alternative to buying insurance products for houses and automobilies. As a key player in the business, Allstate has good long term growth prospects.

On the down side, insurance carriers are subject to massive losses when extreme events like Katrina occur. This is part of the reason is trading at a fire-sale P/E of 7.6 right now.

Even with the possibility of such unexpected losses, I expect ALL will provide above-average long term returns. In the mean time, it also pays a decent dividend.