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RhinoStocks	Increased dividend to $0.70 from $0.58 for shareholders of record on 11/24.	Love	November 17, 2009
barrons3	Known for its rock of Gibraltar logo, Prudential Financial (PRU), the nation's second-largest life insurer after MetLife (MET), enriched its annual dividend 21%, to 70 cents a share from 58 cents, giving it a 1.45% yield. Prudential, which went public in 2001, slashed last year's disbursement -- its first-ever dividend cut -- from 2007's record $1.15 a share after reporting a third-quarter loss. The company's latest two quarters were profitable, and it recently raised its estimate for 2009 operating earnings, to $5.40 to $5.60 a share. It posted a loss of $2.49 a share in 2008. Prudential said it is benefiting from solid sales and net flows in its domestic businesses, with variable-annuity volume at record levels. International insurance sales are strong, too.	Love	November 14, 2009
Leo Garabedian	conservative investmant	Love	September 15, 2009
wally187	Oversold	Love	August 27, 2009
rivandme	insurance	Love	July 02, 2009
DerekNJND	Much love to my employer, and a few doubles for my 401(k)...in less than 2 MONTHS!	Love	May 09, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	Making Genworth's collapse all the more painful was the surge in insurance industry stock prices last Wednesday after a report that the Treasury was prepared to give some large life insurers an injection of government aid. The rally sent up shares of MetLife(MET) and Prudential(PRU), mega-insurers that have long had bank holding-company status, as well as Lincoln National(LNC), Hartford Financial(HIG) and Genworth, which jumped on the bank-buying bandwagon during the height of the credit crisis last year. <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10487261/2/five-dumbest-things-on-wall-street-april-17.html" target="_blank">For more, click here.</a>	Love	April 17, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	In the Thursday "Sell Block" segment, Cramer recited the mantra "when facts change, we change our minds," as he released life insurers Principal Financial (PFG), Prudential (PRU), Lincoln National (LNC) and Hartford Group (HIG) from solitary confinement. BankingMyWay Cramer said he doesn't want to own any of these names, but with the news that the government's TARP plan will be extended to the insurers, they're no longer toxic. Cramer said there's no doubt these companies made a lot of terrible decisions, but TARP solves many of their problems and it's time to stop hating them. (<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10484639/1/cramers-mad-money-recap-the-tide-is-turning.html" target="_blank">"Mad Money Recap," 4-9-09</a>)	Love	April 13, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"If we can take the pressure off this group, including MetLife (MET) and Pru (PRU) and Manulife (MFC) and Allstate (ALL), it would eliminate a second albatross -- mark to cash flow (as I like to call it) will take the pressure off banks with performing loans that had to be marked lower because of the inflexibility of the accounting system." (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=0621f8a0-c48e-488c-b04b-9be5007b5a49" target="_blank">"Next, Fix the Insurers," 4-8-09</a>)	Love	April 08, 2009
barrons3	Lincoln National (LNC), Prudential (PRU), MetLife (MET), Hartford (HIG) and Principal Financial Group (PFG) are right back on the red-hot griddle, and as a bull on the way down, this group is the only group that can truly shake my convictions. Given the exposure these firms have to bedrock principles, payoffs in annuities and life insurance, it is vital that some branch of the Treasury come on and say, "Look, your contractual obligations will be made good, regardless of the ramifications of the companies themselves." These deals have to be like pension benefit guarantees, but the government doesn't seem to be aware of it.	Love	April 02, 2009
cjalexan	Been sucky	Hate	March 22, 2009
Robert E Young	Makes money	Love	March 19, 2009
sarah z	“Broke the low, bounced. Meaningless. Horrible day. Not a lot of players because this is a big vacation week. However, the damage is stark and, as my friend Doug Kass reminds us, we need Jack Bauer. As someone who cannot short, as someone who feels the pain of the longs, I so did not want to be right in my last series of shows and in my articles lately about how bad this market is and how I think it isn't done. Look, you cannot get a "bottom" when the fates of Prudential (PRU) Allstate (ALL), Hartford Financial (HIG) Lincoln National (LNC) and Principal (PFG) hang in the balance. You can't get a bottom when Citigroup (C) tosses and turns and flops and chops, and the General Motors (GM) equity could be crammed down to AIG (AIG) status. You can't get a "fear" bottom when the fear may not be strong enough. Today was a miserable day. Miserable. I took a rare day off from my show just to take a day off -- nothing scheduled for vacation until the last week in June -- and I had a sickening feeling it would be miserable. And here it is. Someone will say we didn't take out the lows. I say "blah blah blah." Call me when the insurance/banking situation is stabilized more and I will take it from there. The panic is not in. The slow strangle is.”	Love	February 17, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"The conference call was a disappointment frankly. They took on more risk than I like. I'm only going to recommend Travelers Companies (TRV), which has the single best management."	Love	February 13, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"The conference call was a disappointment frankly. They took on more risk than I like. I'm only going to recommend Travelers Companies (TRV), which has the single best management."	Love	February 12, 2009
primezone1	Obama stimulus plan - big payoff	Love	January 30, 2009
barrons3	Cramer reminded viewers that we've been here before, in the 1980's, during the S&L bailout. Back then, he said, all the financials rallied on the news of the Bad Bank, even the ones who couldn't participate in the bailout. Cramer predicted the same thing will happen again this time, witph stocks like Hartford Financial (HIG), Prudential (PRU), Lincoln National and CIT Group (CIT) all rallying for no good reason. Cramer said history may repeat itself again, as it did in the 1980's, when all of the early rallies gave way to huge selloffs in the years that followed.	Love	January 29, 2009
MDT180	work	Love	December 28, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"I'm not recommending any insurance companies expect maybe Travelers Companies . They're the only ones that are clean."	Love	December 19, 2008
barrons3	How cheap is The Hartford (HIG)? Prudential (PRU)? MetLife (MET)? I mean that these are so cheap that they could get as cheap as Genworth (GNW).	Love	December 03, 2008
greghojo	squeezed on short play	Hate	November 25, 2008
barrons3	And while we are at it, you, Prudential (PRU), and you, MetLife (MET), and you, Hartford (HIG), and you, Principal (PFG), are one firm.	Love	November 20, 2008
barrons3	How could MetLife (MET) and Pru (PRU) and Hartford Financial (HIG) be so cheap? How cheap were Bear and AIG and Lehman at the end.	Love	November 13, 2008
barrons3	Andrew Parmentier explained that Obama is coming in on Jan. 20, and most of the money from the TARP Plan will be gone by the time he gets in. He said the remaining amounts will go to the non-bank banks such as Prudential Financial(PRU) and MetLife(MET).	Love	November 12, 2008
barrons3	While the elite of PNC, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp and JPMorgan have done well, there appear to be better values in the financial sector, including regionals like Fifth Third (FITB), Marshall & Ilsley (MI), KeyCorp (KEY) and Synovus (SNV). Outside banking, battered life insurers beckon, including Prudential Financial (PRU) and MetLife (MET), both of which trade below book value. While insurers are exposed to weak markets through huge investment portfolios, they don't have banks' leverage -- or risks.	Love	November 01, 2008
barrons3	So you can wreck XL Capital (XL) and Prudential (PRU) and Morgan Stanley (MS) and MetLife (MET) and KeyCorp (KEY) and Fifth Third (FITB) and Nat City (NCC) -- takeover, who are you kidding? -- in a matter of weeks.	Love	October 09, 2008
barrons3	Cramer wasn’t recommending any particular stock, but he did say names like Allstate [ALL], MetLife [MET], Prudential [PRU] Chubb [CB] and The Travelers [TRV], which dealt mainly in the safer property, casualty and life insurances, stand to gain the most by any AIG fallout.	Love	September 18, 2008
barrons2	Pru's shares seem like a bargain at 75. And they have upside of 40%, on strength of the company's big -- and growing -- return on equity and leading role in private-placement investing.	Love	August 30, 2008
pcbjim	first stock	Love	July 22, 2008
barrons2	Prudential, with shares at 60, trades for just eight times this year's expected profits and 1.2 times book value of $49 a share. "Prudential has a solid business mix and a leadership position in Japanese market," says Morgan Stanley analyst Nigel Dally. "The stock has come down a lot and it's the most compelling opportunity in the sector."	Love	July 19, 2008