Tiffany & Co. (TIF): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Loser

Tiffany (TIF) pushed the Specialty Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Specialty Retail loser. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.5%. By the end of trading, Tiffany fell $2.02 (-3%) to $65.95 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.8 million shares of Tiffany exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of two million shares. The stock ranged in price between $65.87-$67.67 after having opened the day at $67.63 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67.97. Other company's within the Specialty Retail industry that declined today were: Lentuo International (LAS), down 8.1%, Francescas Holdings (FRAN), down 6%, MarineMax (HZO), down 5.4%, and Perfumania Holdings (PERF), down 4.7%.

Tiffany & Co., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of fine jewelry worldwide. Tiffany has a market cap of $8.66 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.2, equal to the average specialty retail industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Tiffany a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tiffany as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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On the positive front, OfficeMax (OMX), up 4.5%, Bluefly (BFLY), up 4.3%, United Online (UNTD), up 3.4%, and Trans World Entertainment (TWMC), up 2.3%, were all gainers within the specialty retail industry with Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH) being today's featured specialty retail industry winner.

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