Wells Fargo Defends AerCap Holdings (AER); No M&A Discussions, But Still Best Managed Aircraft Lessor

July 16, 2012 11:01 AM EDT Send to a Friend
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Wells Fargo reiterates an 'Outperform' on AerCap Holdings (NYSE: AER).

Analyst, Gary S. Liebowitz, said, "This morning AER issued a press release stating that, contrary to a week-ago report in Flightglobal, the company has not engaged a financial advisor nor discussed with any party the potential sale of the company...Still, we view AER as the best-managed of the four publicly traded aircraft lessors trading at <75% of book value despite an industry leading 2013E pretax RoE of 12-13%. Also, while AER's press release stated that it is currently not engaged in M&A talks, it did reconfirm that the Board is exploring value-enhancing strategies."

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Shares of AerCap Holdings closed at $12.75 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $8.77-$13.50.


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