Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances Inc. (ULTA): Today's Featured Diversified Services Winner

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances (ULTA) pushed the Diversified Services industry higher today making it today's featured diversified services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.2%. By the end of trading, Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances rose 90 cents (1%) to $89.08 on light volume. Throughout the day, 416,504 shares of Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 688,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $87.71-$90.65 after having opened the day at $87.95 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $88.18. Other companies within the Diversified Services industry that increased today were: Avis Budget Group (CAR), up 19.1%, ATA (ATAI), up 11.1%, China Yida (CNYD), up 9.8%, and Cardtronics (CATM), up 8.9%.

Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. operates as a beauty retailer that provides prestige, mass, and salon products; and salon services in the United States. Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances has a market cap of $5.6 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 47.2, equal to the average diversified services industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 35.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value.

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On the negative front, Swisher Hygiene (SWSH), down 12.9%, Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI), down 9.3%, School Specialty (SCHS), down 9.2%, and Hudson Highland Group (HHGP), down 7.9%, were all losers within the diversified services industry with Jacobs Engineering Group (JEC) being today's diversified services industry loser.

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