Mattel Inc. (MAT): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Laggard

Mattel (MAT) pushed the Consumer Durables industry lower today making it today's featured Consumer Durables laggard. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Mattel fell 28 cents (-0.8%) to $34.89 on light volume. Throughout the day, 984,424 shares of Mattel exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of three million shares. The stock ranged in price between $34.80-$35.25 after having opened the day at $35.15 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $35.17. Other company's within the Consumer Durables industry that declined today were: Appliance Recycling Centers (ARCI), down 4.5%, Brunswick Corporation (BC), down 3.8%, Virco Manufacturing Corporation (VIRC), down 3.6%, and Cybex International (CYBI), down 3.1%.

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Mattel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets various toy products. Its products comprise fashion dolls and accessories, vehicles and play sets, and games and puzzles. Mattel has a market cap of $12.09 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16, equal to the average consumer durables industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 27.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Mattel a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Mattel as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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