General Motors Co (GM): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Loser

General Motors (GM) pushed the Consumer Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Consumer Goods loser. The sector as a whole closed the day down 1.1%. By the end of trading, General Motors fell 32 cents (-1.4%) to $21.85 on average volume. Throughout the day, 7.2 million shares of General Motors exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $21.74-$22.17 after having opened the day at $22.03 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $22.17. Other company's within the Consumer Goods sector that declined today were: Coffee Holding Company (JVA), down 15.3%, Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGT), down 8.9%, Arctic Cat (ACAT), down 8.7%, and Mannatech (MTEX), down 6.8%.

General Motors Company (GM) designs, manufactures, and markets cars, crossovers, trucks, and automobile parts worldwide. General Motors has a market cap of $34.32 billion and is part of the automotive industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 6.4, equal to the average automotive industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 4.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate General Motors a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates General Motors as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, attractive valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and poor profit margins.

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On the positive front, Farmer Bros (FARM), up 7.1%, Tianli Agritech (OINK), up 6.7%, Feihe International (ADY), up 5.9%, and Ocean Bio-Chem (OBCI), up 5.9%, were all gainers within the consumer goods sector with Reynolds American (RAI) being today's featured consumer goods sector winner.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the consumer goods sector could consider iShares Dow Jones US Cons Goods (IYK) while those bearish on the consumer goods sector could consider ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods (SZK).

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