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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Ripe for Takeover (NYSE: PHG)

Shares of PHG remained unchanged at $27.92. Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV is trading at a price to book ratio of 1.32. The PEG is 0.58 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 0.72. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 853703 shares of PHG exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 605983. These factors combined make this company a prime takeover candidate. Lookout for any takeover chatter or takeover news regarding this stock as one of the bigger players may have an eye on this one.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics) is the parent company of the Philips Group (Philips).