General Electric Co (GE): Today's Featured Industrial Laggard

General Electric (GE) pushed the Industrial industry lower today making it today's featured Industrial laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.7%. By the end of trading, General Electric fell 12 cents (-0.6%) to $20.80 on average volume. Throughout the day, 44.1 million shares of General Electric exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 50.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $20.69-$20.91 after having opened the day at $20.81 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $20.92. Other company's within the Industrial industry that declined today were: Highway Holdings (HIHO), down 12.4%, Lincoln Electric Holdings (LECO), down 9%, Broadwind Energy (BWEN), down 6.8%, and JinkoSolar (JKS), down 6.6%.

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General Electric Company operates as a technology and financial services company worldwide. General Electric has a market cap of $217.84 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.6, equal to the average industrial industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 16.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate General Electric a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates General Electric as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, solid stock price performance, attractive valuation levels and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the positive front, Clean Diesel Technologies (CDTI), up 20%, TriMas Corporation (TRS), up 13.1%, Intellicheck Mobilisa (IDN), up 13%, and Ultralife Batteries (ULBI), up 11%, were all gainers within the industrial industry with Rockwell Automation Incorporated (ROK) being today's featured industrial industry leader.

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