American Greetings Corp Cl-A (AM)

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$ 14.23
   
  • Change Today:
    $-0.04
  • 52 Week High: $24.55
  • 52 Week Low: $12.50
  • Currency: US Dollars
  • Shares Issued: 32.26m
  • Volume: 264,552
  • Market Cap: $459.01m
  • RiskGrade: 141
  • Beta: 1.03

AM Overview

American Greetings designs, manufactures and sells greetings cards, gift-wrapping and party paraphernalia through approximately 125,000 retail outlets around the world. The group also markets email greetings via the corporation's own websites, co-branded websites and online services. Additionally, the company licenses its designs to various foreign licensees, meaning that in total, its products and designs are available in more than 70 countries worldwide.

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Financials

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 4.2%
Div Cover 2.4
Op Mrgn 9.0%
ROCE 10.3%
Latest F'cast
P/E 9.9
PEG n/a
Pr/Revenue 0.3
Pr/Book 0.6
Latest F'cast
Revenue 6.2%
PBT -37.3%
EPS -33.9%
DPS 7.1%

AM Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue ($m) Pre-tax ($m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
29-Feb-08 1,730.78 123.97 154.00¢ 12.2 0.1 +123% 40.00¢ 2.1%
28-Feb-09 1,646.40 (274.93) (489.00)¢ n/a n/a n/a 60.00¢ 16.1%
28-Feb-10 1,598.29 120.95 207.00¢ 9.2 n/a n/a 36.00¢ 1.9%
28-Feb-11 1,565.54 156.01 218.00¢ 9.9 2.0 +5% 56.00¢ 2.6%
29-Feb-12 1,663.28 97.82 144.00¢ 10.4 n/a -34% 60.00¢ 4.0%

AM Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue ($m) Pre-tax ($m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
28-Feb-13 1,730.00 137.65 225.00¢ 6.3 0.1 +56% n/a 0.0%
28-Feb-14 1,764.74 156.51 255.00¢ 5.6 0.4 +13% n/a 0.0%

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AM ShareCast News

Clinton Cards set to go into administration 09-May-2012 ShareCast

AM Top Newspaper Links

National Briefing 24-Dec-2008 Washington Post
Supervalu loses $10 million in e-mail scam 20-Oct-2007 Chicago Tribune
The week ahead 17-Dec-2006 Chicago Tribune

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Note 2: RiskGrade figures are provided by RiskMetrics.

Note 3: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

AM Market Data

Currency US Dollars
Share Price $ 14.23
Change Today $ -0.04
% Change -0.28 %
52 Week High $24.55
52 Week Low $12.50
Volume 264,552
Shares Issued 32.26m
Market Cap $459.01m
Beta 1.03
RiskGrade 141

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 0
Buy 0
Neutral 2
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 2
neutral
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Trades for 29-May-2012

Time Volume / Share Price
16:15 12,811 @ $14.23
16:15 400 @ $14.21
16:14 121 @ $14.22
16:14 100 @ $14.21
16:14 105 @ $14.22

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