KBW analyst Meyer Shields maintained a Buy rating on American Financial Group (AFG – Research Report) yesterday and set a price target of $147.00. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $128.74.
Shields covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as American Financial Group, Arch Capital Group, and Allstate. According to TipRanks, Shields has an average return of 13.2% and a 72.35% success rate on recommended stocks.
American Financial Group has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $140.33.
The company has a one-year high of $136.96 and a one-year low of $100.49. Currently, American Financial Group has an average volume of 348K.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 49 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of AFG in relation to earlier this year.
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American Financial Group (AFG) Company Description:
American Financial Group, Inc. is an insurance holding company. It engages in property and casualty insurance, focusing on commercial products for businesses, and in the sale of fixed and fixed-indexed annuities in the retail, financial institutions and education markets. The company was founded by Carl Henry Lindner Jr. in 1959 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.
