Estee Lauder Cos Inc (EL): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Winner

Estee Lauder Cos (EL) pushed the Consumer Goods sector higher today making it today's featured consumer goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Estee Lauder Cos rose 42 cents (0.8%) to $53.51 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1.7 million shares of Estee Lauder Cos exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $52.89-$54.12 after having opened the day at $53.15 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $53.09. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that increased today were: Standard Motor Products (SMP), up 22.1%, Global-Tech Advanced Innovations (GAI), up 18%, Reeds (REED), up 17.1%, and Star Scientific (CIGX), up 12.8%.

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The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. Estee Lauder Cos has a market cap of $12.06 billion and is part of the consumer non-durables industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.9, equal to the average consumer non-durables industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 9.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Estee Lauder Cos a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Estee Lauder Cos 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, good cash flow from operations 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, China Xiniya Fashion (XNY), down 8.1%, Tyson Foods (TSN), down 8%, Tianli Agritech (OINK), down 7.6%, and Ballantyne Strong (BTN), down 7.2%, were all laggards within the consumer goods sector with Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (MJN) being today's consumer goods sector laggard.

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