Telefonica SA (TEF): Today's Featured Technology Winner

Telefonica (TEF) pushed the Technology sector higher today making it today's featured technology winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 1%. By the end of trading, Telefonica rose 25 cents (2.1%) to $12.21 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.6 million shares of Telefonica exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of five million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $12-$12.27 after having opened the day at $12 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $11.96. Other companies within the Technology sector that increased today were: Deltathree (DDDC), up 110.5%, Trunkbow International Holdings (TBOW), up 16%, MER Telemanagement Solutions (MTSL), up 13.5%, and Ascent Solar Technologies (ASTI), up 12.3%.

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Telefonica, S.A. provides fixed and mobile telephony services primarily in Spain, Latin America, and rest of Europe. Telefonica has a market cap of $56.55 billion and is part of the telecommunications industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 57.4, above the average telecommunications industry P/E ratio of 9.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 27.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Telefonica a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Telefonica as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, generally poor debt management and poor profit margins.

• You can view the full Telefonica Ratings Report.

On the negative front, Lexmark International (LXK), down 16.2%, Intelligent Systems (INS), down 12%, Dynasil Corporation of America (DYSL), down 10.1%, and Astea International (ATEA), down 9.4%, were all losers within the technology sector with Frontier Communications Corp Class B (FTR) being today's technology sector loser.

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