Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HTH)

to3pq (96.32) Submitted: 1/17/2013 12:31:12 PM : Start Price: $13.92 HTH Score: +3.00

Insider buying like crazy

gunterle (66.20) Submitted: 7/18/2012 12:11:35 PM : Start Price: $10.73 HTH Score: +28.88

signal

TMFDeej (99.46) Submitted: 2/7/2012 3:45:37 PM : Start Price: $9.55 HTH Score: +40.03

Gerald Ford's (no not the formet President, a famous bank investor) investment vehicle. Hilltop hasn't done much with the cash it has, other than use it to fund a medeocre insurance business and make some smaller investments, but the stock really shouldn't be trading at such a large discount to the cash that it has on the books.

Deej

chimpcontest (< 20) Submitted: 2/21/2011 2:29:50 PM : Start Price: $9.65 HTH Score: +41.57

APJ4Realholdings haiku

climbing up hill now

at top no-air make stocks burst

and markets reverse

SuperPicks (29.70) Submitted: 9/22/2010 11:12:07 AM : Start Price: $9.50 HTH Score: +22.44

Squeezing the shorts;
going long picks on stocks with high short interest yet have valuations that arent too bad (or actually good)

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MJKpayday (99.76) Submitted: 5/31/2010 8:45:20 PM : Start Price: $10.52 HTH Score: -0.96

All of a sudden Hilltop Holdings dropped to about .8 Price to book value? What gives? It's a blank check company set up to to buy distressed debt. Gerald Ford, the chairman is well tested, but what about his son, Jeremy Ford? Usually familial run companies outperform, but Jeremy is untested so we'll see. The success of this company rest squarely on the decisions of the management.

spreadsheetV1 (98.85) Submitted: 11/23/2009 1:17:28 AM : Start Price: $12.17 HTH Score: -18.45

This met a high level screen to indicate a buy and strong outperform against its peers (other tickers in its industry). My 1st version of this spreadsheet devles deep into the company's balnace sheet and recent income statements, combined with other relevant price data for the company including insider/institutional holdings, short interest, debt levels, etc.
Testing capabilities of this 1st version of my automated, valuation spreadhseet matched with my personal criteria and see how it holds up.