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Assured Guaranty Ltd is an insurance-specialty business with stocks listed in the US. Assured Guaranty shares (AGO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was US$55.69 – an increase of 2.9% over the previous week. Here's how to invest if you're based in Australia.
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| 52-week range | US$34.6752 - US$56.717 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | US$51.287 |
| 200-day moving average | US$49.0033 |
| Target price | US$61 |
| PE ratio | 15.7006 |
| Dividend yield | US$0.86 (1.58%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | US$3.547 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $55.69
| 1 week (2022-01-06) | 4.98% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2021-12-16) | 16.60% |
| 3 months (2021-10-15) | 5.35% |
| 6 months (2021-07-16) | 20.38% |
| 1 year (2021-01-15) | 44.69% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2020-01-16) | 14.12% |
| 3 years (2019-01-16) | 39.78% |
| 5 years (2017-01-13) | 42.07% |
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 16x. In other words, Assured Guaranty shares trade at around 16x 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 US$419 million (£0.0 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 | US$863 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 47.16% |
| Gross profit TTM | US$809 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.58% |
| Return on equity TTM | 4.4% |
| Profit margin | 31.75% |
| Book value | 88.487 |
| Market capitalisation | US$3.9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 26.83% of net profits
Recently Assured Guaranty has paid out, on average, around 26.83% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.58% 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 1.58% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Assured Guaranty's case, that would currently equate to about $0.86 per share.
While Assured Guaranty's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Assured Guaranty may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Assured Guaranty's most recent dividend payout was on 30 November 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 15 November 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Assured Guaranty's shares have ranged in value from as little as US$34.6752 up to US$56.717. 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 1.2418. 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., through its subsidiaries, provides credit protection products to public finance, infrastructure, and structured finance markets in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Insurance and Asset Management. It offers financial guaranty insurance that protects holders of debt instruments and other monetary obligations from defaults in scheduled payments. The company insures and reinsures various debt obligations, including bonds issued by the United States state, governmental authorities or municipal governmental authorities; and notes issued to finance infrastructure projects. It also insures and reinsures various types of the U.S. public finance obligations, such as general obligation, tax-backed, municipal utility, transportation, healthcare, higher education, infrastructure, housing revenue, investor-owned utility, renewable energy, and other public finance bonds; non-U.S. public finance obligations comprising regulated utilities, infrastructure finance, sovereign and sub-sovereign, renewable energy bonds, pooled infrastructure, and other public finance obligations; and the U.S. and non-U.S. Structured finance obligations, including residential mortgage-backed securities, life insurance transactions, consumer receivables securities, pooled corporate obligations, financial products, and other structured finance securities. In addition, the company provides asset management services comprising investment advisory services, including management of collateralized loan obligations and opportunity funds to outside investors. It markets its financial guaranty insurance directly to issuers and underwriters of public finance and structured finance securities, as well as to investors in such obligations. Assured Guaranty Ltd. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.
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