Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for AGO in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
Oct 12 close
This week's news centers on analyst sentiment and institutional positioning in Assured Guaranty (AGO). The stock carries a "Moderate Buy" consensus with an average 12-month price target of $91.00, alongside a note that a major insider recently increased their holdings by over 20%. A separate filing showed Reinhart Partners LLC trimming its stake by 4.6% during the third quarter, though institutional ownership overall remains high at 92.22%.
AGO closed at $69.62, down 0.6%, sitting below both its 50-day average of $73.45 and its 200-day average of $80.36, with the shorter average also below the longer one. The GekkoIndex reads 63.7, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone. Price sits 13.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $80.63, a gap that bears watching. Returns over the past month, three months, six months and year have all been negative.
The next earnings date falls on 5 November, 23 days out, which lands inside a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the prior report on 6 August saw EPS of $1.23 against a $1.51 estimate, with an 8.8% reaction. Seasonality from this point in the calendar has averaged a 9.4% move over the next 20 trading days across 5 years, rising in all 5. No insider, Congress, or options activity appears in the respective windows, while analysts collectively hold a consensus target of $91.00, implying 30.7% upside from current levels.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Assured Guaranty scores 3 supportive, 0 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive0 mixed2 headwinds
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $69.62 is below the 50-day ($73.45) and 200-day ($80.36) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart63.7, Accumulation
Reading 63.7 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex13.7% below
Price is 13.7% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair valueNo data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart moneyReports in 24 days
Reports on Nov 5, 2026, 24 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings+9.4% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +9.4% over 5 years, rising in 5 of them.
See seasonalityA description of current data, not a recommendation. How this page works
Assured Guaranty closed at $69.62 on Oct 12, 2026, −15.0% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $67.24 to $92.40.
Use the left and right arrow keys to read daily values.
Put AGO on a Gekko watchlist and see its GekkoIndex, Gekko Fair Value and smart money signals update on the chart as they change.
Assured Guaranty provides credit protection to issuers and investors in public finance and structured finance markets, both in the United States and abroad. It is best known for financial guaranty insurance, a product that shields holders of bonds and similar debt instruments from missed scheduled payments. Its coverage spans municipal bonds such as general obligation and tax-backed debt, utility and transportation financing, healthcare and education bonds, housing and infrastructure revenue bonds, and renewable energy projects, alongside structured finance exposures like residential mortgage-backed securities and pooled corporate obligations.
The company runs through two segments, Insurance and Asset Management. Beyond its core insurance and reinsurance work, it writes specialty coverage including real estate transactions, insurance reserve financing, securitizations, and aircraft residual value insurance, and it also offers investment advisory services. Its products are sold directly to bond issuers, underwriters, and investors active in these finance markets.
Assured Guaranty was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. Its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker AGO.
Assured Guaranty’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 63.7, in the Accumulation zone, down 2.8 points over five sessions.
Down 2.8 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 34 | +0.1% | +1.5% |
| Accumulation (current zone) | 246 | +0.3% | +0.5% |
| Neutral | 367 | −0.4% | −1.3% |
| Distribution | 24 | +1.0% | +2.2% |
| Selling | 11 | +2.2% | +6.4% |
Average AGO share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
Assured Guaranty trades 13.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $80.63, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Assured Guaranty shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$80.63
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
13.7% Undervalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 13.9% below the estimate.
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Assured Guaranty, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
No open-market insider purchases were filed for AGO in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
No trades in AGO were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Assured Guaranty has been buying back its own shares.
From company filings.
Assured Guaranty reports on Nov 5, 2026 (24 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports.
Nov 5, 2026
24 days away
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | $1.23 est $1.51 | $195.0M est $205.0M | −8.8% |
| May 7, 2026 | $2.50 est $1.50 | $261.0M est $208.6M | −8.5% |
| Feb 26, 2026 | $2.32 est $1.54 | $277.0M est $205.8M | 0.0% |
| Nov 6, 2025 | $2.42 est $1.54 | $199.0M est $196.8M | +6.1% |
| Aug 7, 2025 | $1.01 est $1.57 | $199.0M est $196.8M | −5.0% |
| May 8, 2025 | $3.18 est $3.15 | $345.0M est $231.7M | −0.3% |
| Feb 27, 2025 | $1.27 est $1.36 | $152.0M est $199.6M | −4.7% |
| Nov 11, 2024 | $2.42 est $1.35 | $269.0M est $202.6M | +4.4% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Assured Guaranty is $91.00, +30.7% from the last close, from 3 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 3 firms.
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | Roth MKM | $85 | +22.1% |
| Sep 14 | UBS | $91 | +30.7% |
| Aug 13 | KBW | $97 | +39.3% |
| Aug 7 | Roth MKM | $80 | +14.9% |
| Jul 17 | KBW | $101 | +45.1% |
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Assured Guaranty averaged +9.4% across the last 5 years, rising in 5 of them.
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +3.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +4.6% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +7.2% | 5 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +9.4% | 5 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +11.7% | 5 of 5 |
For scale, AGO’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 4.7%.
Assured Guaranty’s market cap is $3.08B, with a P/E ratio of 9.4 and revenue of $813.0M over the last twelve months.
2 headlines about Assured Guaranty from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
Assured Guaranty’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| FNFFidelity National Financial | Accumulation | 22.2% below |
| ORIOld Republic International | Accumulation | 9.1% below |
| FAFFirst American | Accumulation | 20.7% below |
| ESNTEssent | Accumulation | 11.7% below |
| RDNRadian | Accumulation | 13.7% below |
| STCStewart Information Services | Accumulation | 28.8% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Assured Guaranty’s market cap is $3.08B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $69.62, with 43.98M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 9.4.
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Assured Guaranty is $91.00, +30.7% from the last close. Of the 3 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 3 rate it a buy, 0 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
On Gekko’s estimate Assured Guaranty is undervalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $69.62 is 13.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $80.63. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
Assured Guaranty is expected to report on Nov 5, 2026 (24 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.63 per share on revenue of $205.7M. Assured Guaranty beat the earnings estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports, moving 4.7% on average across the report.
Assured Guaranty’s 52-week high is $92.40 and its 52-week low is $67.24; it closed at $69.62 on Oct 12, 2026, −15.0% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $96.60 on Feb 28, 2024.
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality) and 2 as headwinds (trend and earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
During US trading hours the price at the top of the page is a delayed quote, refreshed every 15 minutes; everything else is rebuilt after each US market close. The GekkoIndex, Gekko Fair Value and the checklist are Gekko’s own, and the Gekko Brief is written by AI from this page’s data and checked against it before it is published. How Gekko’s data works →
Every GekkoIndex reading, insider trade, options bet and Congress disclosure plotted on the chart, plus the 5,800-name screener and trade planning tools.
Join 1,408 other traders using Gekko
Start Your FREE 7 Day Trial → Every feature unlocked. No credit card required.Type a ticker or company name. Press Esc to close.