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Friday, August 5, 2011

Potential Takeover Candidate? (NYSE: AET)

Shares of AET fell by 0.77% or $-0.29/share to $37.56. Aetna Inc. is trading at a price to book ratio of 1.35. The PEG is 0.68 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 0.42. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 4512200 shares of AET exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 6013243. These factors combined may make this company a potential takeover candidate. Value investors may have an eye on this one, especially if the stock gets cheaper.

Aetna Inc. (Aetna) is a diversified health care benefits company, serving approximately 35.