Use Alleghany to enhance returns of your portfolios. The stock experiences normal upward fluctuation
1 Month Beta ..........
0.27
As returns on market increase, Alleghany returns are expected to increase less than the market. However during bear market, the loss on holding Alleghany will be expected to be smaller as well.
The median price of Alleghany for the period between Sun, Apr 22, 2012 and Tue, May 22, 2012 is 339.3 with a coefficient of variation of 1.9. The daily time series for the period is distributed with a sample standard deviation of 6.4, arithmetic mean of 336.88, and mean deviation of 5.18. The Stock received some media coverage during the period.
Alleghany Corporation [Y] is traded on American Stock Exchange in USA. It is located in New York, NY and employs 763 people. The company currently falls under 'Mid-Cap' category with current capitalization of 5.51 B. Alleghany Corporation operates under Financial sector and is part of Property and Casualty Insurance industry. This company has 16.93 M outstanding shares of which 235.83 K shares are at this time sold short by investors with about 3.1 days to cover all short positions.
Alleghany Liquidity
ALLEGHANY CP has accumulated about 1.09 B in cash with 162.02 M of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 64.5.
The company has accumulated 1.42 B in total debt with debt to equity ratio (D/E) of 0.23 which may indicate that the company is not taking enough advantage of borrowing. Alleghany Corporation has Current Ratio of 0.74 which means it has a negative working capital and may have difficulties to pay out interest payments when they become due.
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