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AFL: Bull or Bear?
Aflac's uptrend continues
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Filed under: AFLAC Inc (AFL), Stocks to Buy  Steady as she goes, with Aflac (AFL), to borrow a Star Trek phrase, and that's why I'm reiterating my buy rating for the company, first recommended on May 28, 2009 at a price of $36.07. If you bought AFL in May, you're up about 30%.
After a slow start, institutional investors in mid-2010 finally noticed that not every insurer would be wiped-out by collateralized debt obligations and bad bonds. Aflac boasts primarily high-quality corporate debt, Wall Street realized this in the spring, and it's been off to the races ever since. Aflac is one of the l...
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Dividend growth trio: Aflac, Medtronic and Colgate-Palmolive
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Filed under: Newsletters, AFLAC Inc (AFL), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Stocks to Buy  "One way to build an inflation hedge into your investment cash flows is to focus on stocks that are likely to boost their dividends on a regular basis," explains dividend specialist Chuck Carlson.
<>In his The DRIP Investor, which focuses on blue chip companies offering dividend reinvestment programs, he notes, "Since dividends are paid with cold cash, they can't be faked. Either you pay the dividend or you don't. They can't be some figment of accounting magic." Here, he looks at three favorite blue chips with stro...
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Bullish on AFL ...
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Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac), provides supplemental health and life insurance. The company offers cancer plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans, and annuities in Japan. It also offers accident/disability plans, cancer expense plans, short-term disability plans, sickness and hospital indemnity plans, hospital intensive care plans, fixed-benefit dental plans, vision care plans, long-term care plans, and life insurance products...
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Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Prospects
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The accompanying table includes 38 companies in the ETF Innovators Health Benefit Providers Index, which was down sharply in the past week and has lost 14% of its market value to a level of 192,305 since I last wrote about the group five weeks ago. <> <> The uncertain future for health insurers and benefit providers that I wrote about previously came to a head this week with plans by President Obama for healthcare reform aimed at cutting health costs by favoring generic drug makers and smaller Medicare Advantage payments to private insurers, along with smaller increases...
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