1.   Analysts said the company would probably fetch more than its current share price if another company acquired it.

2.   Buffett is known for not overpaying for companies, and analysts said he paid in the low range of what other recently acquired reinsurance companies have fetched.

3.   But based on the prices these companies now fetch, investors appear to be expecting such a huge windfall that they are leaving themselves vulnerable to disappointment.

4.   Having publicly traded shares, at the high prices Internet companies now fetch, would make it easier for Snap to acquire related Internet companies.

5.   Lentz declined to say how much the company might fetch in a sale or to give financial details of its performance.

6.   Nygren says he searches for stocks selling at large discount to what the company would fetch in a private transaction.

7.   Part of their reasoning is the consolidation sweeping the finance industry and the purchase prices that similar companies are fetching.

8.   Pontet would not say how much those companies fetched.

9.   Salomon sold the business now because the U.K. mortgage market improved last year and helped the company fetch a higher price.

10.   Stocks on the list are usually cheap relative to their earnings growth or are cheap in relation to what the companies would fetch if sold.