Financial Sector Stocks In News; National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE:NFP), Prudential Public Limited Company (ADR) (NYSE:PUK)

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StockNational Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE:NFP) shares increase by 17% yesterday after it declared that the company is looking at a sale and had received sign of interest from private-equity firms, but doesn’t disclose the name of the firm. The company formed a board of sovereign directors to judge a sale, to provide brokerage and advisory services.

Previous month, the company reported its fiscal Q4, in this report the company’s  profit increased to 73% as revenue increase as compare to last year same period that was bogged down by big distraction charges.

Let’s have a short overview of the financial highlights of the stock, Shares of National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE:NFP) increased 1.85% to settle at $22.54 on March 14, 2013.

NFP has 2822 employees. Sales of NFP were 1.06 billion with net income of 29.94 million.

NFP stock surged during the trade to the maximum level at $23.00 and at the lowest level of $21.85 after opening price of $22.07 NFP has earning per share of $0.70 while it has 39.88million shares outstanding with institutional ownership of103%.

The price to sales ratio of NFP in past twelve months was calculated as 0.83and price to cash ratio remained 5.24. While retunes ratios are concerned, the NFP return on equity ratio is recorded as 7.32% and return on assets remain 3.34%.

Prudential Public Limited Company (ADR) (NYSE:PUK) declared its earning report  yesterday has doing better in the market as it has declared its earning report yesterday. The company has report an increase in Operating Profit (OP) of £2,533 million, the company’s OP is high 25% from earlier report for the same period.

Prudential Public Limited Company (ADR) (NYSE:PUK) stock in last session held volume of 930,789 shares as compare to its average volume of 158,678 shares. The stock after opening at $34.68 hit high price of $35.00 and then closed at $35.00 by rising up 3.86%.

Looking at the revenue measures, the company generated sales of 57.85 million in last twelve months with income of $2.29 billion. The Company showed a positive 3.97% in the net profit margin and its operating margin is calculated as 5.09%. Company’s annual sales growth for the past five years was 0.82%.

PUK past twelve months price to sales ratio was 0.74 and price to cash ratio recorded as 4.29. As far as the returns are concern, PUK return on equity recorded as 17.80% while its return on assets stayed at 0.56%.


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