Navistar International Corp (NAV): Today's Featured Automotive Winner

Navistar International (NAV) pushed the Automotive industry higher today making it today's featured automotive winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Navistar International rose 60 cents (2.5%) to $24.60 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1.5 million shares of Navistar International exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.2 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $23.82-$24.67 after having opened the day at $23.90 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $24. Other companies within the Automotive industry that increased today were: Dorman Products (DORM), up 15.4%, TRW Automotive Holdings (TRW), up 7.9%, Meritor (MTOR), up 6.4%, and Federal-Mogul (FDML), up 5.4%.

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Navistar International Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells commercial and military trucks, buses, diesel engines, recreational vehicles (RVs), and chassis, as well as provides service parts for trucks and trailers. Navistar International has a market cap of $1.62 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 1.4, equal to the average automotive industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 36.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Navistar International a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Navistar International as a hold. Among the primary strengths of the company is its solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have evaluated. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, poor profit margins and weak operating cash flow.

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