Panera Bread Company Inc. (PNRA): Today's Featured Services Laggard

Panera Bread Company (PNRA) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Panera Bread Company fell $1.79 (-1.1%) to $154.49 on light volume. Throughout the day, 284,432 shares of Panera Bread Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 551,700 shares. The stock ranged in price between $154-$156.11 after having opened the day at $155.09 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $156.28. Other companies within the Services sector that declined today were: China Yida (CNYD), down 26.6%, LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (LNET), down 14.1%, Innotrac Corporation (INOC), down 12.7%, and InfoSonics Corporation (IFON), down 12.3%.

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Panera Bread Company, together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, and franchises retail bakery-cafes in the United States and Canada. Panera Bread Company has a market cap of $4.43 billion and is part of the leisure industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.7, below the average leisure industry P/E ratio of 30.2 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Panera Bread Company a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Panera Bread Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.

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On the positive front, China Metro-Rural Holdings (CNR), up 21.1%, Pizza Inn Holdings (PZZI), up 17.2%, China HGS Real Estate (HGSH), up 15.5%, and Xueda Education Group (XUE), up 14.9%, were all gainers within the services sector with Best Buy (BBY) being today's featured services sector leader.

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