Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGO) Gets a Buy Rating from KBW


KBW analyst Bose George reiterated a Buy rating on Assured Guaranty Ltd (NYSE: AGO) yesterday and set a price target of $48. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $38.77.

According to TipRanks.com, George is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 13.6% and a 71.3% success rate. George covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Fidelity National Financial, MTGE Investment Corp, and PennyMac Financial.

The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Assured Guaranty Ltd with a $49.50 average price target.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd’s market cap is currently $4.41B and has a P/E ratio of 7.53. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 0.65.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 39 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. Most recently, in June 2018, Howard Albert, the CRO of AGO sold 13,361 shares for a total of $503,645.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of credit protection product to the U.S. and international public finance, and structured finance markets through its subsidiaries. Its businesses include public, global infrastructure and structured finance, and reinsurance and specialty insurance.

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