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Dow Today: United Technologies (UTX) Higher

By TheStreet Wire 08/06/12 - 02:00 PM EDT

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading up 68 points (+0.5%) at 13,164 as of Monday, Aug 6, 2012, 1:35 p.m. ET. During this time, 262.1 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 683 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 2,018 issues advancing vs. 920 declining with 131 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), which is sporting a 31-cent gain (+0.4%) bringing the stock to $77.12. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 2.35 points or roughly accounting for 3.5% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for United Technologies currently sits at 1.8 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 4.1 million shares.

United Technologies has a market cap of $67.87 billion and is part of the conglomerates sector and conglomerates industry. Shares are up 2.3% year to date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.9%.

United Technologies Corporation provides technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.5, below the average conglomerates industry P/E ratio of 13 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates United Technologies as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations, notable return on equity, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

You can view the full United Ratings Report.

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