$21.63 -0.11 (-0.51%)
11/20/2009 4:01 PM

American Greetings Corp (AM)

CAPS Rating: 1 out of 5

The Company creates, manufactures and distributes social expression products including greeting cards, gift wrap, party goods, calendars and stationery as well as custom display fixtures.

Current Price $21.63 Mkt Cap $852.81M
Open $21.57 P/E Ratio 8.50
Prev. Close $21.74 Div. (Yield) 0.48 (2.20%)
Daily Range $21.30 - $22.12 Volume 262,383
52-Wk Range $3.24 - $24.10 Avg. Daily Vol. 628,000

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mcmitch26 (< 20)
Submitted October 03, 2006

Generates $2.00+ / share in FCF per year with little leverage. Run rate EPS of $2.05 at the mean 15x PE multiple implies the stock should get to $30 the summer of '07... (when the "fog" of investment spend has cleared).

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fmahnke (97.56)
Submitted April 09, 2009

Overextended high debt potential issues with loan covenents, didvidend cuts likely

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Member Avatar manucastle (68.11) Submitted: 11/10/2009 1:45:49 PM : Outperform Start Price: $22.10 AM Score: -1.74

I have purchased AM :-

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=am&.yficrumb=yIQAwlz5SoW

Industry: printing & publishing
EPS = -4.55
EPS EST 1yr = 2.000 2yr = 2.205
EPS EST Q1 = 0.660 Q2 = 0.265
PE = na Industry 21.3
PB = 1.44 Industry 1.6
PS = 0.51 Industry 0.9
P/CF = na industry 10.7
P/FCF = 6.0 Industry 8.7
Yield 2.2 Industry 0.0
Gross profit margin = 53.4 Industry 53.5
Operating margin = -13.3 Industry -13.3
Net Profit Margin = -12.8 Industry -12.8
ROA = -14.2 Industry -14.1
ROE = -36.5 Industry 1.0
Insider ownership = 2.4
Greenblatt ROC = -42.12
Greenblatt Earnings Yield = 0.00
PosFCF generic % free cash flow yield 16.59%***
Passes 13 of 17 of Mike Klein's metrics
MaxPrice = 102.82 Discount 79%**
Metrics from qtr ending 8/28/2009
Caps rank 1
http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/AM.aspx
MC score 251

All good enough for my money. I only suggest stocks that I own !

(See posts 388/584/665/760/1051/1807/2213/3546/3755/4046/4208/4225/4345/4573/4818/5241/5242/5310/5461/5579/
5169/7651 on 'Investment Analysis Clubs / Dynamic Value Investing ' board for extra due diligence applied ). **MaxPrice is a generic version of Mike Klein's Maxprice and ROC and Earnings yields are generic versions of Greenblatt's metrics. *** PosFCF generic % free cash flow yield taken from AAII and posts 5248 and 5253

See 'Investment Analysis Clubs / Dynamic Value Investing' board and my CAPS profile for further excellent companies selling at a discount to Maxprice with excellent current metrics. CAPS only shows my selections over 100Mill (unfortunately due to restricted lower market cap applied by MF CAPS).

As stated on the 'Investment Analysis Clubs /Dynamic Value Investing' board my aim is to obtain up to 50% returns p.a. as Buffett stated he could obtain (3 times) recently. A very difficult task but you can follow along with my buys and sells on my CAPS page, where I put my money where my mouth is . If I perform well I hope you can benefit. If not , feel free to ignore my comments. CAPS allows each and everyone of us to be clinically judged on our stock picking abilities over the LONG TERM.

Please always do your own due diligence before investing.

Manucastle :o)

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Member Avatar MRSTARBUCKS (73.45) Submitted: 10/8/2009 4:36:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $22.87 AM Score: -8.04

a good greeting cards company

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Member Avatar jpmj (< 20) Submitted: 9/24/2009 12:11:52 PM : Outperform Start Price: $18.91 AM Score: +10.20

merry christmas

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jinchoice

jinchoice (99.39) Score: +336.71

This is a fluke. I knew the stock was undervalued but I didn't expect it to quadruple. I didn't even put real money in. Regretting that now obviously.

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Pick 		Member Name Member
Rating 		Start
Date 		Call Time
Frame 		Start
Price 		Stock
Gain 		S&P
Gain 		Score Commentary
usul2525 97.25 3/23/2009 4/20/2009 Outperform 3Y $4.60 +369.92% +40.43% +329.49
NillWilley 80.39 1/16/2009 Outperform 5Y $4.84 +347.15% +29.71% +317.44
shootingshark 88.23 1/14/2009 Outperform 3M $5.23 +313.71% +30.20% +283.51 1 Comment
CapsCapsCaps 99.49 3/24/2009 Outperform NS $5.64 +283.66% +36.10% +247.56
Religulous < 20 3/23/2009 Outperform NS $5.89 +266.98% +37.67% +229.32
SSPX9 99.46 5/26/2009 Outperform NS $6.20 +248.89% +25.13% +223.76
ContractKiller 98.69 5/29/2009 Outperform 5Y $6.40 +238.14% +20.96% +217.19
This player feels very strongly about this pick and has marked it a Top Pick. Top Picks do not affect a player’s score. smithtz 75.82 12/24/2008 Outperform NS $6.28 +244.55% +29.10% +215.45
1st2 < 20 1/8/2009 Outperform NS $6.55 +230.00% +23.20% +206.79
WilleyNilley 89.40 1/7/2009 Outperform 5Y $6.60 +227.61% +22.72% +204.89
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Gain		 Score End Date Commentary
TrackRodriguez 84.99 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $24.33 -70.12% -42.57% -27.55 4/22/2009 @ $7.27 1 Comment
TrackBrandes < 20 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $23.98 -9.81% -24.86% +15.05 2 Comments

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