ACE Ltd (ACE): Today's Featured Insurance Laggard

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ACE (ACE) pushed the Insurance industry lower today making it today's featured Insurance laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 2.4%. By the end of trading, ACE fell $1.16 (-1.5%) to $77.88 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.1 million shares of ACE exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $77.36-$78.49 after having opened the day at $78.02 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $79.04. Other companies within the Insurance industry that declined today were: Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), down 8.3%, Lincoln National Corp (Radnor (LNC), down 7.8%, Citizens (CIA), down 7.6%, and Protective Life (PL), down 7.3%.

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ACE Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of insurance and reinsurance products to insureds worldwide. ACE has a market cap of $26.48 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 12.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 17 analysts that rate ACE a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates ACE as a buy. 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, increase in stock price during the past year, attractive valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.

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