American Eagle Outfitters (AEO): Today's Featured Services Loser

American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services loser. The sector as a whole closed the day up 1.7%. By the end of trading, American Eagle Outfitters fell 12 cents (-0.6%) to $19.30 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3.1 million shares of American Eagle Outfitters exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $19.27-$19.69 after having opened the day at $19.42 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $19.42. Other company's within the Services sector that declined today were: Willdan Group (WLDN), down 10.8%, QKL Stores (QKLS), down 8.7%, J.C. Penney (JCP), down 8.6%, and Luna Innovations (LUNA), down 7.7%.

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an apparel and accessories retailer in the United States and Canada. American Eagle Outfitters has a market cap of $3.76 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.1, equal to the average retail industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 25.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate American Eagle Outfitters a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates American Eagle Outfitters as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, revenue growth, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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On the positive front, Westinghouse Solar (WEST), up 27.2%, TOP Ships (TOPS), up 22.9%, FreeSeas (FREE), up 17.2%, and American Reprographics Company (ARP), up 15.8%, were all gainers within the services sector with Macy's (M) being today's featured services sector winner.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the services sector could consider iShares Dow Jones US Cons Services (IYC) while those bearish on the services sector could consider ProShares Ultra Short Consumer Sers (SCC).

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