Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co (GT): Today's Featured Consumer Non-Durables Loser

Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT) pushed the Consumer Non-Durables industry lower today making it today's featured Consumer Non-Durables loser. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Goodyear Tire & Rubber fell 10 cents (-0.9%) to $10.92 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 11.3 million shares of Goodyear Tire & Rubber exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of seven million shares. The stock ranged in price between $10.76-$11.18 after having opened the day at $10.95 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $11.02. Other company's within the Consumer Non-Durables industry that declined today were: Buckeye Technologies (BKI), down 9%, Xerium Technologies (XRM), down 6.6%, Cereplast (CERP), down 5.9%, and Ocean Bio-Chem (OBCI), down 5.6%.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells tires, and related products and services worldwide. Goodyear Tire & Rubber has a market cap of $2.6 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.4, below the average consumer non-durables industry P/E ratio of 13.6 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 25.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Goodyear Tire & Rubber a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and one rates it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Goodyear Tire & Rubber as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, generally poor debt management and poor profit margins.

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On the positive front, China Xiniya Fashion (XNY), up 24%, Joe's Jeans (JOEZ), up 9.7%, Deswell Industries (DSWL), up 8.5%, and Standard Register Company (SR), up 8.4%, were all gainers within the consumer non-durables industry with International Paper (IP) being today's featured consumer non-durables industry winner.

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