Visa Inc. (V): Today's Featured Diversified Services Winner

Visa (V) pushed the Diversified Services industry higher today making it today's featured diversified services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Visa rose $1.24 (1%) to $122.59 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.1 million shares of Visa exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $121.03-$122.59 after having opened the day at $121.10 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $121.35. Other companies within the Diversified Services industry that increased today were: American Reprographics Company (ARP), up 15.2%, Oxygen Biotherapeutics (OXBT), up 9.5%, Xueda Education Group (XUE), up 8.7%, and Career Education Corporation (CECO), up 8.2%.

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Visa Inc., a payments technology company, engages in the operation of retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. Visa has a market cap of $63.41 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.7, below the average diversified services industry P/E ratio of 28.1 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 19.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 23 analysts that rate Visa a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Visa as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and expanding profit margins. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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On the negative front, China HGS Real Estate (HGSH), down 15.9%, China Yida (CNYD), down 9.8%, LivePerson (LPSN), down 7.8%, and USA Technologies (USAT), down 7.2%, were all losers within the diversified services industry with United Rentals (URI) being today's diversified services industry loser.

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