Dominion Resources Inc (D): Today's Featured Utilities Laggard

Dominion Resources (D) pushed the Utilities sector lower today making it today's featured Utilities laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.5%. By the end of trading, Dominion Resources fell 35 cents (-0.6%) to $53.98 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.4 million shares of Dominion Resources exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $53.98-$54.72 after having opened the day at $54.66 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.33. Other company's within the Utilities sector that declined today were: American DG Energy (ADGE), down 7%, Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (CLNE), down 6.8%, FirstEnergy (FE), down 6.5%, and Avista Corporation (AVA), down 4.1%.

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Dominion Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing and transporting energy in the United States. It operates in three segments: DVP, Dominion Generation, and Dominion Energy. Dominion Resources has a market cap of $31.2 billion and is part of the utilities industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.4, above the average utilities industry P/E ratio of 23.2 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Dominion Resources a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Dominion Resources as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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