Life & Health Insurance

Here's one of your more traditional "Buffett-like" stock screens where I am essentially looking for companies selling well below their book value. The stocks below represent six companies that are trading at less than half its book value. CDC Corp (CHINA) has finally broken its one year...

Principal Global Investors (NYSE: PFG), today announced a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Finisterre Capital LLP, and Finisterre Holdings an established emerging markets investor based in London.

Wunderlich Securities has a Buy rating and a $50 price target on shares of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: SFG). In a note to clients, Wunderlich writes, "We reiterate our Buy rating and price target of $50, or 1.1x 2011E book value of $44.45, on shares of StanCorp Financial Group (SFG)....

Best 1) Opexa Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OPXA): Trading up 24% from yesterday's close to $2.27. A positive report emanating from a clinical trial of its drug Tovaxin has shares up. 2) Assured Guaranty (NYSE: AGO): Trading up 18.84% from yesterday's close to $16.84. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has...

Wells Fargo has revised estimates on JB Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ: JBHT) from $2.07 to $2.13 for 2011 and from $2.51 to $2.60 for 2012. Earnings are revised down on Key Energy Services (NYSE: KEG) from $0.72 to $0.72 for 2011, for Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ: GBDC) from $1.38 to $1.29 for 2011...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a Neutral rating and a $51 price target on shares of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: SFG) after the company pre-announced earnings. In the research note, Bank of America writes, "After the market close, StanCorp announced preliminary 1Q operating earnings of...

Below are the top large-cap life insurance stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of PEG ratio MetLife Inc (NYSE: MET) has a PEG ratio of 0.66. IAG's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $52.72 billion. Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) has a PEG ratio of 0.83. PRU's trailing-twelve-month...

StanCorp Financial Guides Down Q1 EPS $0.75-0.77 vs. $1.19 Estimate (NYSE: SFG)

StanCorp Financial Group (NYSE: SFG) today announced preliminary financial results for the first quarter of 2011. Net income per diluted share is estimated to be in the range of $0.72 to $0.74 for the first quarter of 2011, compared to $1.04 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2010. After-...

The federal government has told several different mortgage lenders and servicers today that they must reimburse homeowners who were incorrectly foreclosed upon. The Federal Reserve, Office of Thrift Supervision and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency told Ally Financial Inc., Aurora Bank,...

Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) today announced that Breege A. Farrell has been named senior vice president and chief investment officer for the company. In this capacity, Farrell will be responsible for designing and overseeing Unum's investment and asset management strategies, including maintaining a...

The Principal Financial Group®, Inc. (NYSE: PFG) announced that Principal Financial Group, S.A. de C.V., Grupo Financiero has agreed to acquire 100% of HSBC AFORE, S.A. de C.V from Grupo Financiero HSBC, S.A. de C.V. for approximately US $198 million based on current exchange rates (Mexican Pesos 2...

Effective April 11, 2011, the Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.0925 per share on its common stock to be paid on May 20, 2011, to stockholders of record on April 25, 2011.

Shares of Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE: LNC) are higher on the session by 0.27%, trading at $29.87. Overall put volume is now running at 2.12x the daily average, with 58% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,583 contracts have traded on the session so far. Lincoln National...

ADA-ES Inc (NASDAQ: ADES) fell 35.33% to $14.26 at 9:55 am. An arbitration panel in Atlanta, Georgia issued an Interim Award holding ADA liable for around $37.9 million dollars in damages for breach of a non-solicitation provision of a Market Development Agreement the Company entered into with...