Assured Guaranty Ltd Stock News

Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGO) shares closed today at 1.8% below its 52 week high of $56.72, giving the company a market cap of $3B. The stock is currently up 10.9% year-to-date, up 47.3% over the past 12 months, and up 56.0% over the past five years. This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.3%. Trading Activity Trading volume this week was 7.2% lower than the 20-day average.Beta, a measure of the stocks volatility relative to the overall market stands at 0.0. Technical Indicators The Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the stock was above 70, indicating it may be overbought.MACD, a trend-following momentum indicator, indicates a downward trend.The stock closed above its Bollinger band, indicating it may be overbought. Market Comparative Performance The company's share price is the same as the S&P 500 Index , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis The company's share price is the same as the Dow Jones Industrial Average , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis The company share price is the same as the performance of its peers in the Financials industry sector , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5 year basis Per Group Comparative Performance The company's stock price performance year-to-date beats the peer average by 61.0% The company's stock price performance over the past 12 months beats the peer average by 7.8% The company's price-to-earnings ratio, which relates a company's share price to its earnings per share, is 146.6% higher than the average peer. This story was produced by the Kwhen Automated News Generator. For more articles like this, please visit us at finance.kwhen.com. Write to [email protected]. © 2020 Kwhen Inc.

Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGO) shares closed today at 1.8% below its 52 week high of $56.72, giving the company a market cap of $3B. The stock is currently up 10.9% year-to-date, up 44.7% over the past 12 months, and up 56.0% over the past five years. This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.3%. Trading Activity Trading volume this week was 7.2% lower than the 20-day average.Beta, a measure of the stocks volatility relative to the overall market stands at 1.0. Technical Indicators The Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the stock was above 70, indicating it may be overbought.MACD, a trend-following momentum indicator, indicates a downward trend.The stock closed above its Bollinger band, indicating it may be overbought.The stock closed at 1.7% higher than its 5-day moving average, 9.1% higher than its 20-day moving average, and 9.5% higher than its 90-day moving average. Market Comparative Performance The company's share price is the same as the S&P 500 Index , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis The company's share price is the same as the Dow Jones Industrial Average , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis The company share price is the same as the performance of its peers in the Financials industry sector , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5 year basis Per Group Comparative Performance The company's stock price performance year-to-date beats the peer average by 61.0% The company's stock price performance over the past 12 months beats the peer average by 7.2% The company's price-to-earnings ratio, which relates a company's share price to its earnings per share, is 146.6% higher than the average peer. This story was produced by the Kwhen Automated News Generator. For more articles like this, please visit us at finance.kwhen.com. Write to [email protected]. © 2020 Kwhen Inc.

Westpac Banking Corp reduced its stake in Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 24.8% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 17,562 shares of the financial services providers stock after selling 5,800 shares during the period. Westpac Banking Corps holdings in []

TCW Group Inc. reduced its stake in shares of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 27.9% during the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 20,787 shares of the financial services providers stock after selling 8,060 shares during the period. TCW Group Inc.s holdings in Assured Guaranty were worth $973,000 as of its most recent []

Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. reduced its stake in shares of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 30.3% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 129,220 shares of the financial services providers stock after selling 56,118 shares during the quarter. []

Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) was the target of a significant decrease in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,280,000 shares, a decrease of 22.9% from the October 31st total of 1,660,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 448,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.9 []

Kahn Brothers Group Inc. DE decreased its holdings in Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 1.9% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 1,432,425 shares of the financial services providers stock after selling 28,481 shares during the quarter. Assured Guaranty accounts for []

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans trimmed its position in shares of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 1.0% during the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 3,166,110 shares of the financial services providers stock after selling 30,947 shares during the period. Thrivent Financial []

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Louisiana State Employees Retirement System raised its holdings in shares of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 3.5% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 35,200 shares of the financial services providers stock after acquiring an additional 1,200 shares during the quarter. Louisiana []

Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC reduced its holdings in Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) by 93.0% in the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 11,515 shares of the financial services providers stock after selling 153,387 shares during the period. Cubist Systematic Strategies LLCs holdings in Assured Guaranty were worth $547,000 at the end of the []

Assured Guaranty Ltd. found using ticker (AGO) have now 3 analysts covering the stock with the consensus suggesting a rating of ''Buy''. The range between the high target price and low target price is between 65 and 56 and has a mean target at 61. Now with the previous closing price of 53.48 this indicates there is a potential upside of 14.1%. The 50 day moving average now sits at 52.35 while the 200 day moving average is 48.9. The market capitalisation for the company is $3,752m. Visit the company website at: /> [stock_market_widget type="chart" symbol="AGO" chart="bar" range="6mo" interval="1d" line-color="rgb(49, 125, 189)"] Assured Guaranty Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides credit protection products to public finance, infrastructure, and structured finance markets in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Insurance and Asset Management. It offers financial guaranty insurance that protects holders of debt instruments and other monetary obligations from defaults in scheduled payments.

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