Crown Castle International Corp (CCI): Today's Featured Technology Winner

Crown Castle International (CCI) pushed the Technology sector higher today making it today's featured technology winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.6%. By the end of trading, Crown Castle International rose 50 cents (0.9%) to $54.31 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.1 million shares of Crown Castle International exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.1 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $53.56-$54.77 after having opened the day at $53.83 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $53.81. Other companies within the Technology sector that increased today were: Deltathree (DDDC), up 47.1%, Vringo (VRNG), up 24.6%, Motricity (MOTR), up 17.8%, and Dynasil Corporation of America (DYSL), up 16.3%.

Crown Castle International Corp., together with is subsidiaries, owns, operates, and leases shared wireless infrastructure primarily in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Australia. Crown Castle International has a market cap of $15.71 billion and is part of the telecommunications industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 94, equal to the average telecommunications industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 20.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Crown Castle International a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Crown Castle International as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including premium valuation and generally poor debt management.

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On the negative front, Hoku (HOKU), down 25.2%, LDK Solar Company (LDK), down 15.1%, NetApp (NTAP), down 12.3%, and Recon Technology (RCON), down 11.3%, were all losers within the technology sector with VMWare (VMW) being today's technology sector loser.

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