Cooper Industries PLC. (CBE): Today's Featured Electronics Loser

Cooper Industries (CBE) pushed the Electronics industry lower today making it today's featured Electronics loser. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Cooper Industries fell 44 cents (-0.6%) to $67.96 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.8 million shares of Cooper Industries exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $67.86-$68.47 after having opened the day at $68.16 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $68.40. Other company's within the Electronics industry that declined today were: FSI International (FSII), down 18.7%, Winland Electronics (WEX), down 12%, SatCon Technology Corporation (SATC), down 11.2%, and Daystar Technologies (DSTI), down 8.1%.

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Cooper Industries plc manufactures and sells electrical components and tools in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Energy and Safety Solutions, and Electrical Products Group. Cooper Industries has a market cap of $10.82 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.3, equal to the average electronics industry P/E ratio and below 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 Tuesday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Cooper Industries a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Cooper Industries 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, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the positive front, China Sunergy (CSUN), up 11.8%, A123 Systems (AONE), up 9%, Transcat (TRNS), up 8.1%, and LGL Group (LGL), up 7.3%, were all gainers within the electronics industry with Texas Instruments (TXN) being today's featured electronics industry winner.

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