Lorillard Inc. (LO): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Winner

Lorillard (LO) pushed the Consumer Goods sector higher today making it today's featured consumer goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, Lorillard rose $2.14 (1.7%) to $130.34 on light volume. Throughout the day, 904,055 shares of Lorillard exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.2 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $128.27-$130.81 after having opened the day at $128.76 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $128.20. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that increased today were: UniFirst Corporation (UNF), up 9.7%, Westport Innovations (WPRT), up 9.2%, Sealy (ZZ), up 7.7%, and Standard Register Company (SR), up 7.5%.

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Lorillard, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cigarettes in the United States. It markets approximately 43 product offerings in various brand names, including Newport, Kent, True, Maverick, and Old Gold. Lorillard has a market cap of $16.8 billion and is part of the tobacco industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.4, above the average tobacco industry P/E ratio of 16.1 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 12.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Lorillard a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Lorillard 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 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 negative front, Deswell Industries (DSWL), down 6.3%, G-III Apparel Group (GIII), down 5.7%, Cereplast (CERP), down 5.7%, and Bridgford Foods Corporation (BRID), down 4.9%, were all losers within the consumer goods sector with Navistar International (NAV) being today's consumer goods sector loser.

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