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$70.78 1.09 (1.56%)
8/20/2008 4:02 PM

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)

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A financial services Company that has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. It offers an array of financial products and services.

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Total Members

357 Outperforms
69 Underperforms
 

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88 Outperforms
22 Underperforms
 

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10 Outperforms
0 Underperforms
 

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Ticker Tags

New Jersey (8), Life Insurance (38), Large Cap (467), Business Week 50 (50), Newark (1), Dividend (202), S&P 500 (480)
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Prudential Financial, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $70.78
Last Trade Time: 8/20/2008 4:02 PM
Open: $69.25
Previous Close: $69.69
Daily Range: $68.99 - $71.01
52-Week Range: $54.70 - $101.45
Volume: 2,886,453
Market Cap: $29.62B
P/E Ratio: 13.30
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Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)

Avatar jtallenmd (95.44) Submitted: 8/02/08 10:09 AM

Intrinsic Value of $140.

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Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)

Avatar AnomaLee (99.50) Submitted: 6/30/08 6:19 PM

Thank you to luvb2b...

You'd think after a 50% decline from their highs that valuations would be appealing... I value companies before I value their shares. I did similar research onto AIG before, but thanks to luvb2b I've found this to be even more grand. You think this is still a good ...More

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 (PRU)

Avatar trood2929 (33.70) Submitted: 8/11/08 1:18 AM : Outperform Start Price: $75.00 PRU Score: -4.15

Prudential will outgain it's own partners. Reconigtion is beyond my doubt. What it will turn out is the question left unanswered.

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Avatar jdgee2 (< 20) Submitted: 8/06/08 5:32 PM : Underperform Start Price: $70.99 PRU Score: 1.52

Prudential Financial will survive the 2008 "financial's are the devil's work" syndrom. Still, I'm thinking that "Pru's" numbers will be flat, into the 2nd half of 2009.

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 (PRU)

Avatar jtallenmd (95.44) Submitted: 8/02/08 10:09 AM : Outperform Start Price: $69.06 PRU Score: 1.31

Intrinsic Value of $140.

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 (PRU)

Avatar ellinajohn (93.89) Submitted: 7/31/08 5:22 PM : Outperform Start Price: $69.00 PRU Score: 2.04

target price $115

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 (PRU)

Avatar jwalravens (98.84) Submitted: 7/31/08 11:41 AM : Underperform Start Price: $59.24 PRU Score: -17.41

Pru results : Facts

Pru did not beat estimates.

Pru reported net income for the second quarter of $1.35 per share, sharply lower than $1.80 reported in the corresponding quarter last year. The mean estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was for a per-share profit of $1.85.

There was a great confusion with the “adjusted operating income”. Pru also reports what they call “adjusted operating income”. Adjusted operating income is a non-GAAP measure of performance that excludes net realized investment gains/losses. This is the result if there had been no subprime crisis. This is great creative accounting.

Pru results do not include some unrealized gains/losses. Net unrealized losses on general account fixed maturity investments of the Financial Services Businesses amounted to $1.718 billion at June 30, 2008, compared to net unrealized gains of $1.332 billion at December 31, 2007.

I am not sure that all journalists and all investors have understood all this

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