Fossil Inc. (FOSL): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Winner

Fossil (FOSL) pushed the Consumer Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1%. By the end of trading, Fossil rose $3.68 (5.5%) to $70.91 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.3 million shares of Fossil exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $68.86-$71.59 after having opened the day at $68.86 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67.23. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that increased today were: VeriFone Systems (PAY), up 6%, Sony Corporation (SNE), up 5.7%, Mattress Firm (MFRM), up 4.9%, and Libbey (LBY), up 4.9%.

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Fossil, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and distributes consumer fashion accessories worldwide. Fossil has a market cap of $4.16 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.4, equal to the average consumer durables industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 15.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Fossil a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Fossil as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

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On the negative front, Cybex International (CYBI), down 6.6%, Global-Tech Advanced Innovations (GAI), down 5.2%, Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGT), down 4.4%, and Cascade Microtech (CSCD), down 4.3%, were all laggards within the consumer durables industry with Pitney Bowes (PBI) being today's consumer durables industry laggard.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the consumer durables industry could consider Consumer Discretionary Sel Sec SPDR (XLY) while those bearish on the consumer durables industry could consider ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods (SZK).

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