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Monday, August 8, 2011

Potentially Oversold Level Reached (NYSE: AFG)

Shares of AFG fell by 5.61% or $-1.82/share to $30.63. American Financial Group Inc. is trading at a price to book ratio of 0.75. This indicates that the value of the company's underlying assets exceeds today's market price. The PEG is 1.08 suggesting that the shares are attractively priced relative to the firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 0.73. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 409955 shares of AFG exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 541797. These financial metrics combined make this company seem undervalued. Lookout for any takeover chatter or takeover news regarding this stock as one of the bigger players may have an eye on this one.

American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG) is a holding company, which through subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance, focusing on specialized commercial products for businesses, and in the sale of traditional fixed and indexed annuities and a range of supplemental insurance products, such as Medicare supplement.