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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Undervalue​d Stock Detected (NYSE: JEF)

Shares of JEF traded higher by 0.36% or $0.04/share to $11.22. Jefferies Group Inc. is trading at a price to book ratio of 0.78. This indicates that the value of the company's underlying assets exceeds today's market price. 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 0.88. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 4474680 shares of JEF exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 1813608. These financial metrics combined make this company seem undervalued. Value investors may have an eye on this one, especially if the stock gets cheaper.

Jefferies Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate as securities and investment banking firm.