Allstate Corp Stock Buy Recommendation Reiterated (ALL)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Allstate (NYSE:ALL) has been reiterated by TheStreet Ratings as a buy with a ratings score of A. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

• Looking at where the stock is today compared to one year ago, we find that it is not only higher, but it has also clearly outperformed the rise in the S&P 500 over the same period. Although other factors naturally played a role, the company's strong earnings growth was key. Turning our attention to the future direction of the stock, it goes without saying that even the best stocks can fall in an overall down market. However, in any other environment, this stock still has good upside potential despite the fact that it has already risen in the past year.
• Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 13.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 4.1%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
• The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.32, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels.
• Net operating cash flow has increased to $807.00 million or 11.15% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, ALLSTATE CORP's cash flow growth rate is still lower than the industry average growth rate of 32.78%.

The Allstate Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the personal property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and retirement and investment products business primarily in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.8, equal to the average insurance industry P/E ratioand below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Allstate has a market cap of $17.03 billion and is part of the financial sector and insurance industry. Shares are up 25.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.

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--Written by a member of TheStreet Ratings Staff.

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