Undervalued Securities Ideas for May 2008
The stock market went up a bit in April 2008 but not too significant. We ran a stock screening tool with the following criterias to obtain investment ideas:
Held Insiders >=0.02,
Price Book Ratio <=3,
Entity Value/Operating Cash Flow <=6,
PEG Ratio <=1,
Total Debt/Equity <=0.35,
Return on Equity >=20%,
Free Cash Flow >=1.
Here are the results for further research:
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Ticker Company Name Last Trade as
of 04/30/2008 Mkt Cap ROA PEG P/S
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AWH ALLIED WLD ASSUR 41.23 2.494B 4.09 0.48 1.76
AMSF AMERISAFE INC 14.26 268.4M 4.54 0.58 0.79
ENH ENDURANCE SPLTY H 37.13 2.242B 5.11 0.50 1.24
PCR PERINI CP 36.18 982.1M 6.18 0.78 0.22
FMR FIRST MERCURY FIN 15.8 286.9M 6.75 0.42 1.54
WCG WELLCARE HEALTHPL 43.78 1.826B 9.91 0.49 0.37
NVTL NOVATEL WIRELESS 8.92 292.2M 13.68 0.54 0.69
LCAV LCA-VISION INC 10.11 186.9M 15.40 0.70 0.64
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Data Source: Yahoo! Finance
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