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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Undervalued Stock Detected (NYSE: KS)

Shares of KS traded higher by 0.17% or $0.03/share to $17.49. KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation is trading at a price to book ratio of 1.71. The PEG is 0.27 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 0.97. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 257713 shares of KS exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 105608. 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.

KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation (KapStone) produces and sells a range of unbleached kraft paper, linerboard, saturating kraft and unbleached folding carton board.