Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI): Today's Featured Technology Loser

Motorola Solutions (MSI) pushed the Technology sector lower today making it today's featured Technology loser. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.4%. By the end of trading, Motorola Solutions fell $1.21 (-2.4%) to $49.71 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.8 million shares of Motorola Solutions exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $49.63-$50.45 after having opened the day at $50.07 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $50.92. Other company's within the Technology sector that declined today were: Memsic (MEMS), down 39.9%, MTS Medication Technologies (MTSI), down 18%, Performance Technologies (PTIX), down 14.8%, and Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), down 11.8%.

Motorola Solutions, Inc. provides communication infrastructure, devices, software, and services for government and enterprise customers worldwide. Motorola Solutions has a market cap of $14.86 billion and is part of the telecommunications industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 31.2, above the average telecommunications industry P/E ratio of 20.9 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Motorola Solutions a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Motorola Solutions as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins, solid stock price performance and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the positive front, Evolving Systems (EVOL), up 18.8%, MetroPCS Communications (PCS), up 17.8%, Tangoe (TNGO), up 13.8%, and Pulse Electronics (PULS), up 13.8%, were all gainers within the technology sector with Salesforce.com (CRM) being today's featured technology sector winner.

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