Verizon Communications Inc (VZ): Today's Featured Telecommunications Winner

Verizon Communications (VZ) pushed the Telecommunications industry higher today making it today's featured telecommunications winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Verizon Communications rose 27 cents (0.6%) to $43.82 on average volume. Throughout the day, 11.8 million shares of Verizon Communications exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 14.5 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $43.51-$44.13 after having opened the day at $43.52 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.55. Other companies within the Telecommunications industry that increased today were: InterDigital (IDCC), up 27.1%, Telecom Argentina (TEO), up 10.2%, UTStarcom Holdings (UTSI), up 10.2%, and Tellabs (TLAB), up 6.4%.

Verizon Communications Inc. provides communications, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental agencies worldwide. It operates in two segments, Verizon Wireless and Wireline. Verizon Communications has a market cap of $124.3 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 47, above the average telecommunications industry P/E ratio of 46.5 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 9% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Verizon Communications a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and 17 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Verizon Communications as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.

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On the negative front, RIT Technologies (RITT), down 12.8%, B Communications (BCOM), down 6.8%, Alvarion (ALVR), down 6.5%, and Cbeyond (CBEY), down 6%, were all losers within the telecommunications industry with Siemens (SI) being today's telecommunications industry loser.

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