AFLAC News

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WMI's 'AFLAC Incorporated: Company Profile and SWOT Analysis' report utilizes a wide range of primary and secondary sources, which are analyzed and presented in a consistent and easily accessible format.

Aflac Inc. started a new Atlanta-based unit that will provide services to the nation's largest brokerage firms.

CVX -0.02% AFL -1.1% WAG +0.29% XOM -0.1% CB -0.14% RLI +0.03% GWW +0.7% GRC -0.88% RAVN +0.36% CLC -0.22% DCI +0.33% HP -1.91% Dividend investors are looking for stocks with great dividend payments.

With Treasury bond and other more predictable forms of investments offering returns as low as 1.7%, if not lower, savvy investors are looking outside the box to the stock market and dividend-yielding stocks in general - and with good reason.

AFL has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports. Analysts at Barclays Capital reiterated an "overweight" rating on shares of AFLAC in a research note to investors on Friday, May 11st.

Investors should generally seek stocks where net income, cash flow, annual EPS before NRI and sales are trending upwards for the past three years.

's stock had its "overweight" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at Barclays Capital in a research note issued to investors on Friday.

NEW YORK, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated , today announced that their May 3rd RetailInvestorConferences.com presentation is now available for on-demand viewing.

Veronica R. Kirk Scott , of Atlanta, was sentenced this week to nine months in prison for defrauding Columbus, Ga.-based Aflac out of $27,000, reports the Ledger-Enquirer. Scott was convicted in January of one count of health care fraud.