Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY): Today's Featured Services Loser

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services loser. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Bed Bath & Beyond fell 81 cents (-1.3%) to $60.51 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.1 million shares of Bed Bath & Beyond exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.9 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $60.15-$61.28 after having opened the day at $61.14 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $61.32. Other company's within the Services sector that declined today were: HHGregg Incorporated (HGG), down 36.4%, VOXX International (VOXX), down 17.7%, FreeSeas (FREE), down 13.1%, and Rush (RUSHB), down 11.9%.

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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of retail stores. Bed Bath & Beyond has a market cap of $14.21 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.5, equal to the average retail industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 5.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate Bed Bath & Beyond a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Bed Bath & Beyond as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. 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 positive front, China HGS Real Estate (HGSH), up 27.9%, Skywest Incorporated (SKYW), up 14.4%, Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), up 13.6%, and American Learning (ALRN), up 9.2%, were all gainers within the services sector with AutoZone (AZO) being today's featured services sector winner.

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