Avon Products Inc (AVP): Today's Featured Consumer Non-Durables Loser

Avon Products (AVP) 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 down 0.5%. By the end of trading, Avon Products fell 45 cents (-2.7%) to $16.02 on light volume. Throughout the day, 4.2 million shares of Avon Products exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.3 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $15.86-$16.46 after having opened the day at $16.41 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $16.47. Other company's within the Consumer Non-Durables industry that declined today were: Cereplast (CERP), down 13.2%, Tufco Technologies (TFCO), down 11.1%, Crocs (CROX), down 7.1%, and MOD-PAC Corporation (MPAC), down 6.8%.

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Avon Products, Inc. manufactures and markets beauty and related products worldwide. Avon Products has a market cap of $7.19 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.3, equal to the average consumer non-durables industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 4.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Avon Products a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Avon Products as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and generally poor debt management.

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On the positive front, Coldwater Creek (CWTR), up 12.4%, Frederick's of Hollywood Group (FOH), up 5.4%, CCA Industries (CAW), up 4.7%, and Fuwei Films Company (FFHL), up 4.4%, were all gainers within the consumer non-durables industry with Under Armour (UA) being today's featured consumer non-durables industry winner.

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