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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Great Stock Value (NYSE: PL)

Shares of PL fell by 2.97% or $-0.54/share to $17.65. Protective Life Corp. is trading at a price to book ratio of 0.46. This indicates that the value of the company's underlying assets exceeds today's market price. The PEG is 0.77 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 0.5. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 751445 shares of PL exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 456455. These financial metrics combined make this company seem undervalued. Value investors may have an eye on this one, especially if the stock gets cheaper.

Protective Life Corporation (Protective) is a holding company.