4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein facts

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, Yahoo! Finance, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 103 of the 110 All-Star members who have rated AllianceBernstein -- some 94% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include theolddeal and jc09058, both of whom are ranked in the top 15% of our community.

In December, theolddeal tapped AllianceBernstein as an interesting income opportunity: "Asset manager, no debt, was hurt by exposure to Lehman and Freddie/Fannie equity, but as [a master limited partnership] still yields a fat dividend and investment base should stabalize with the market."

In a more recent pitch from last month, jc09058 shares that contrarian spirit:

Trying to reason out why this company's share price went down. Sadly, nothing more than a change in it's CEO seems to have caused the share price down other than the general market trend. … As this market trend continues, I feel that I'm going to be buying more in the future. Solid company hurt by panic and sell offs. During the next year, i see another dip in it's price as the general market bottoms out and then a fairly quick recovery in the second half of the year. I would not be surprised to see closing prices in early 2010 similar to the early 2008 time period.

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