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AMPH: Bull or Bear?

American Physicians Services: Undervalued Relative to Peers, Growth Prospects Graphic_rating_buy AMPH
+4.52%
in 543 days

MarketBeatingStocks.com likes American Physicians Services Group (AMPH) based on their earnings growth, low valuation, strong analyst support, and recent price momentum. AMPH earnings growth over the past 12 months has been astronomical at 358%, and that is better than virtually all of their industry competitors.

<>While it is true that a major acquisition last year accounted for much of that extreme growth, even after normalizing, we think earnings have grown around 40% which is still better the majority of their industry competitors. With a PE ratio around 6 (one of the lowest in the indust...
By  Market Beating Stocks   (-28.82%  risk: moderate)  05/29/08 Comment


Growth and Value, wait you can have your cake and eat it? Graphic_rating_buy AMPH
Chirs_seaturtle
54%
 -5.45%
in 374 days
(closed on 06/03/09)
AMPH is a stock whose last qtr numbers show tremendous growth.  Although estimates are for next qtr to have negative year over year growth isn't it ok for the negativity to be in the estimates?  I do believe the negativity is a good thing especially when we are in this market environment.  More negative people are on a stock the more likely the reaction to earnings will be strong.  That is if they beat the estimate.  With that said, last qtr growth was phenominal!

Sales growth (YoY):  121%
EPS growth (YoY):  1,476%
P/E ratio:  6

The stock is selling 6x earnings ...
By  Market Speculator   (-2.47%  risk: moderate)  05/24/08 Comment





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