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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Stocks with Strong Financial Metrics (NYSE: FBR)

Shares of FBR fell by 3.25% or $-0.25/share to $7.44. NYSE is trading at a price to book ratio of 0.57. This indicates that the value of the company's underlying assets exceeds today's market price. The PEG is 0.12 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 1.55. On average, 1881630 shares of FBR exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 753699. These factors combined may make this company a potential takeover candidate. Lookout for any takeover chatter or takeover news regarding this stock as one of the bigger players may have an eye on this one.

Fibria Celulose SA, formerly Votorantim Celulose e Papel SA, is a Brazil-based company involved in the production and sale of short fiber pulp.