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Kansas City Southern Inc. (KSU): Today's Featured Transportation Laggard

By TheStreet Wire 08/06/12 - 05:01 PM EDT

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Kansas City Southern (KSU) pushed the Transportation industry lower today making it today's featured Transportation laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Kansas City Southern fell 74 cents (-1%) to $73.39 on light volume. Throughout the day, 584,192 shares of Kansas City Southern exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of one million shares. The stock ranged in price between $73.35-$74.96 after having opened the day at $74.03 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $74.13. Other company's within the Transportation industry that declined today were: DS Torm (TRMD), down 11.3%, FreightCar America (RAIL), down 8.7%, Newlead Holdings (NEWL), down 8.5%, and Ultrapetrol Bahamas (ULTR), down 3.9%.

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Kansas City Southern, through its subsidiaries, engages in the freight rail transportation business. Kansas City Southern has a market cap of $7.86 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.2, equal to the average transportation industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 4.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Kansas City Southern a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Kansas City Southern as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

You can view the full Kansas City Southern Ratings Report.

On the positive front, Republic Airways Holdings (RJET), up 6.8%, DHT Holdings (DHT), up 6%, Gol Intelligent Airlines (GOL), up 5.9%, and Seanergy Maritime Holdings (SHIP), up 5.4%, were all gainers within the transportation industry with Delta Air Lines (DAL) being today's featured transportation industry leader.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the transportation industry could consider iShares Dow Jones Transportation (IYT) while those bearish on the transportation industry could consider ProShares UltraShort Industrials (SIJ).

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