Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC): Today's Featured Media Loser

Time Warner Cable (TWC) pushed the Media industry lower today making it today's featured Media loser. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.3%. By the end of trading, Time Warner Cable fell 77 cents (-0.9%) to $80.85 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.9 million shares of Time Warner Cable exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.7 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $80.17-$81.92 after having opened the day at $81.45 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $81.62. Other company's within the Media industry that declined today were: Peoples Educational Holdings (PEDH), down 31.4%, KIT Digital (KITD), down 30.3%, Radio One (ROIA), down 10.6%, and Lamar Advertising (LAMR), down 9.1%.

Time Warner Cable Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a cable operator in the United States. It offers video, high-speed data, and voice services over its broadband cable systems to residential and business service customers. Time Warner Cable has a market cap of $25.41 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.5, equal to the average media industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 28.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate Time Warner Cable a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Time Warner Cable as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.

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On the positive front, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), up 13.5%, Insignia Systems (ISIG), up 12.6%, Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), up 10%, and NTN Buzztime (NTN), up 8.7%, were all gainers within the media industry with Walt Disney (DIS) being today's featured media industry winner.

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