Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY): Today's Featured Retail Winner

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) pushed the Retail industry higher today making it today's featured retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Bed Bath & Beyond rose $1.46 (2.1%) to $72.47 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.3 million shares of Bed Bath & Beyond exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $71.22-$72.49 after having opened the day at $71.46 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $71.01. Other companies within the Retail industry that increased today were: Bon-Ton Stores (BONT), up 8%, HHGregg Incorporated (HGG), up 7.3%, QKL Stores (QKLS), up 5.4%, and Cache (CACH), up 5.1%.

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of retail stores. Bed Bath & Beyond has a market cap of $16.51 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.4, equal to the average retail industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 21.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate Bed Bath & Beyond a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Bed Bath & Beyond 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, notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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On the negative front, Duckwall-Alco Stores (DUCK), down 3.7%, Gordman's Stores (GMAN), down 3.6%, E-Commerce China Dangdang (DANG), down 3.5%, and Fred's (FRED), down 2.9%, were all losers within the retail industry with AutoZone (AZO) being today's retail industry loser.

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