Chart of the Day - Aflac (AFL)

The "Chart of the Day" is Aflac (AFL), which showed up on Monday's Barchart "52-Week High" list. Aflac on Monday posted a new 16-month high of $51.31 and closed +1.11%. TrendSpotter has been long since Oct 15 at $48.78. In recent news on the stock, Aflac on Oct 23 reported fiscal Q4 EPS of $1.77, well above the consensus of $1.66. Barron's on Sep 2 ran a story saying that Aflac stock price is cheap compared to its own history and its peers and that there is room for the stock price to grow 30%. Aflac, with a market cap of $23 billion, is a leading supplemental health and life insurance company.