Assured Guaranty is an insurance - specialty business based in the US. Assured Guaranty shares (AGO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Assured Guaranty employs 350 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $865 million.
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| Latest market close | $80.23 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $57.36 - $95.50 |
| 50-day moving average | $78.36 |
| 200-day moving average | $78.75 |
| Wall St. target price | $99.75 |
| PE ratio | 6.5586 |
| Dividend yield | $1.18 (1.55%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $12.21 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $80.23 from 2024-09-03
| 1 week (2024-08-29) | 0.66% |
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| 1 month (2024-08-05) | 5.64% |
| 3 months (2024-06-05) | 3.44% |
| 6 months (2024-03-05) | -11.67% |
| 1 year (2023-09-05) | 34.98% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-09-02) | 55.27% |
| 3 years (2021-09-03) | 68.62% |
| 5 years (2019-09-05) | 93.01% |
Valuing Assured Guaranty stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Assured Guaranty's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Assured Guaranty's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 7x. In other words, Assured Guaranty shares trade at around 7x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Assured Guaranty's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.52. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Assured Guaranty's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Assured Guaranty's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $374 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Assured Guaranty's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $865 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 52.88% |
| Gross profit TTM | $788 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.61% |
| Return on equity TTM | 13.25% |
| Profit margin | 83.24% |
| Book value | $104.19 |
| Market Capitalization | $4.2 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 9.63% of net profits
Recently Assured Guaranty has paid out, on average, around 9.63% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.55% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Assured Guaranty shareholders could enjoy a 1.55% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Assured Guaranty's case, that would currently equate to about $1.18 per share.
While Assured Guaranty's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Assured Guaranty is investing more in its future growth.
Assured Guaranty's most recent dividend payout was on 3 September 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 20 August 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Assured Guaranty's shares have ranged in value from as little as $57.3585 up to $95.4988. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Assured Guaranty's is 1.109. This would suggest that Assured Guaranty's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Assured Guaranty Ltd. , together with its subsidiaries, provides credit protection products to public finance, infrastructure, and structured finance markets in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments: Insurance and Asset Management. The company offers financial guaranty insurance that protects holders of debt instruments and other monetary obligations from defaults in scheduled payments. It insures and reinsures various debt obligations, including bonds issued by the United States state governmental authorities; and notes issued to finance infrastructure projects. In addition, the company insures and reinsures various the U. S.
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