Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY): Today's Featured Services Winner

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) pushed the Services sector higher today making it today's featured services winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Bed Bath & Beyond rose $1.17 (1.9%) to $64.17 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.2 million shares of Bed Bath & Beyond exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $62.89-$64.85 after having opened the day at $62.92 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $63. Other companies within the Services sector that increased today were: General Employment (JOB), up 35.1%, Newlead Holdings (NEWL), up 31.6%, Skywest Incorporated (SKYW), up 22.1%, and EnerNOC (ENOC), up 22.1%.

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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of retail stores. Bed Bath & Beyond has a market cap of $14.4 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.7, equal to the average retail industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 8.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate Bed Bath & Beyond a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Bed Bath & Beyond as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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On the negative front, Orbitz Worldwide (OWW), down 25.5%, American Learning (ALRN), down 21.1%, Hackett Group (HCKT), down 17.4%, and Priceline.com (PCLN), down 17.3%, were all laggards within the services sector with Expedia (EXPE) being today's services sector laggard.

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