Aviva Share Chat (AV.)

I am sure we will all chip in and pay you handsomely if you would put more slabs down (if that means the share price will go up by another 8% that is).
Seriously, you are right, it is great. results seem to have been very well kept secret, the way it should be with every PLC, but normally everyone knows / guesses the results this time no one had any ideas,
Great result!

It will have to reach at least £4.50 before I raise my eyebrows! I'm still sitting on a huge loss.

Resurrected Duck

Blimey I go out in the garden to lay a few more slabs and I come back in and I am in total shock,
I am almost in profit.
Yippee Viva Aviva

PS Jerermy my FCCN ticking up

As I said earlier SP has been performing very well. I wish I had bought some yesterday!
Increase today has brought this BOard alive, great to see, this was a real dead duck!
Good to have you all back.

seems that the dead duck has gone alive again then! How I hope it could repeat Pru's success.

Who said this morning that this share was a dead duck.

now 346p live - up and up she goes where she stops nobody knows!

JP Morgan Cazenove reissued their overweight rating on shares of Aviva plc (LON: AV.) in a research report released on Monday morning, Analyst Ratings Network reports. JP Morgan Cazenove currently has a GBX 393 ($6.03) price target on the stock.

A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on AV.. Analysts at Citigroup reiterated a buy rating on shares of Aviva plc in a research note to investors on Friday, April 26th. They now have a GBX 432 ($6.63) price target on the stock. Separately, analysts at BNP Paribas reiterated an outperform rating on shares of Aviva plc in a research note to investors on Wednesday, April 24th. They now have a GBX 379 ($5.81) price target on the stock. Finally, analysts at Shore Capital Stockbrokers reiterated a sell rating on shares of Aviva plc in a research note to investors on Monday, April 22nd.

One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock presently has a consensus rating of Buy and a consensus price target of GBX 408.06 ($6.26).

I believe that the final dividend was 9p, which has already gone ex-div on Wed Mar 20, 2013.

Aviva shares were boosted by first-quarter figures this morning, gaining 13.3p (4.1%) to 336p. The insurer told us that new business is up 18% to £191m, due to improved profitability in its UK and Asian markets. Restructuring costs caused a £54m hit, but that was more than matched by a 10% reduction in operating expenses to £769m with the firm still on track for cost savings of £400m.

The firm's net asset value has risen 9% to 302p per share, and its internal debt level is down by £300m. Chief executive Mark Wilson said: "Progress so far has been satisfactory and there is a great deal more we need to do for our shareholders."