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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Winner

By TheStreet Wire 06/18/12 - 05:00 PM EDT

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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) pushed the Food & Beverage industry higher today making it today's featured food & beverage winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters rose 88 cents (4.4%) to $20.70 on light volume. Throughout the day, 5.5 million shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $19.70-$20.84 after having opened the day at $19.79 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $19.82. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that increased today were: Smithfield Foods (SFD), up 7.5%, Synutra International (SYUT), up 6.9%, John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), up 5.8%, and Le Gaga Holdings (GAGA), up 5%.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. engages in the specialty coffee and coffee maker business. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has a market cap of $3.13 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.6, equal to the average food & beverage industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 55.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Green Mountain Coffee Roasters a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Green Mountain Coffee Roasters as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock has had a generally disappointing performance in the past year.

You can view the full Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Ratings Report.

On the negative front, Reeds (REED), down 13.5%, Jones Soda Company (JSDA), down 7.3%, China New Borun Corporation (BORN), down 5.3%, and Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A (CCH), down 4.8%, were all losers within the food & beverage industry with Sara Lee Corporation (SLE) being today's food & beverage industry loser.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the food & beverage industry could consider PowerShares Dynamic Food & Beverage (PBJ) while those bearish on the food & beverage industry could consider PowerShares DB Agriculture Sht ETN (ADZ).

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