PetSmart Inc. (PETM): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Winner

PetSmart (PETM) pushed the Specialty Retail industry higher today making it today's featured specialty retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.3%. By the end of trading, PetSmart rose 73 cents (1.1%) to $67.73 on light volume. Throughout the day, 539,052 shares of PetSmart exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $67.27-$68.40 after having opened the day at $67.49 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that increased today were: Vitamin Shoppe (VSI), up 6.7%, West Marine (WMAR), up 6.1%, iParty Corporation (IPT), up 5%, and PC Mall (MALL), up 4.8%.

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PetSmart, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of products, services, and solutions for pets in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. PetSmart has a market cap of $7.29 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.1, equal to the average specialty retail industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 31.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate PetSmart a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates PetSmart 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, notable return on equity and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.

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