4 Value Stocks for the Contrarian Investor
Written by: Gregg Greenberg
Tickers in this article:
BAC HRB AFL GCI
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Aflac(AFL) shareholders haven't had much to quack about the past year with the stock severely underperforming the S&P 500, but Bill Smead, portfolio manager for the Smead Value Investor Fund(SMVLX) , expects that to change.
"They cleaned up their trouble with their European bond ownership and now they've got $100 billion dollars to invest, and furthermore the stock trades cheaply at just over 6 times next year's earnings," says Smead, who also won't rule out the possibility of Aflac being acquired at some point in the near future.