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$371.00 1.50 (0.41%)
8/29/2008 4:01 PM

Wesco Financial Corp (WSC)

CAPS Rating:
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The Company is engaged in three principal businesses through its subsidiaries: the insurance business, through Wes-FIC; the furniture rental business, through CORT; and the steel service center business, through Precision Steel.

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132 Outperforms
10 Underperforms
 

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Ticker Tags

Finance (4), Small Cap (1922), Financial Insurer (3), Buffett Stock (50), Diversified Conglomerate (16), Rental & Leasing Services (27), CEO over 70 (8)
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Wesco Financial Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $371.00
Last Trade Time: 8/29/2008 4:01 PM
Open: $369.50
Previous Close: $369.50
Daily Range: $366.51 - $372.00
52-Week Range: $352.00 - $449.66
Volume: 1,180
Market Cap: $2.63B
P/E Ratio: 26.02
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Avatar rgrossfool (< 20) Submitted: 7/26/07 11:27 AM

Insurance has been punished lately. Looking for this to move back towards the high end of the 52 week range.

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Avatar ELGuard (< 20) Submitted: 7/20/08 9:26 PM : Outperform Start Price: $378.61 WSC Score: -3.81

This stock represents one tenth of the value (approx.) of Berkshire "B" share and may recover with the financials and also may generate some buying volume as the dividend yield increases at this low price

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Avatar FoolishTomCat (28.86) Submitted: 7/20/08 4:54 PM : Outperform Start Price: $378.61 WSC Score: -3.81

Insurance+FurnitureRental+Steel+CharlieMunger=OUTPERFORM!!!!!!

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Avatar chk999 (100.00) Submitted: 6/28/08 8:21 PM : Outperform Start Price: $375.61 WSC Score: -1.90

Trading at a lower than average ratio with BRK.

(Thanks to mungofitch on the brk board.)

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Avatar NWTOGME (< 20) Submitted: 6/17/08 6:55 AM : Outperform Start Price: $409.58 WSC Score: -3.48

Nice spot for out perform. Going with the scouter, scouter knows.

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Avatar YoungInvestor99 (< 20) Submitted: 5/04/08 4:51 PM : Outperform Start Price: $448.80 WSC Score: -8.64

Charlie Munger.





This is a pretty small company for a market cap of only $3bil.





Maybe it will be like a mini version of the next berkshire? It does not look like their splitting the price @ 440, but I don't know if they have in the past.

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