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Kansas City Southern Inc. (KSU): Today's Featured Services Winner

By TheStreet Wire 08/14/12 - 05:00 PM EDT

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Kansas City Southern (KSU) pushed the Services sector higher today making it today's featured services winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Kansas City Southern rose $1.39 (1.9%) to $75.38 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.2 million shares of Kansas City Southern exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of one million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $74.24-$75.49 after having opened the day at $74.65 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $73.99. Other companies within the Services sector that increased today were: Michael Kors Holdings (KORS), up 16.5%, Willdan Group (WLDN), up 16.4%, Shengkai Innovations (VALV), up 13.5%, and Seanergy Maritime Holdings (SHIP), up 13.3%.

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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 $8.09 billion and is part of the transportation industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.9, above the average transportation industry P/E ratio of 20.7 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. 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 negative front, Westinghouse Solar (WEST), down 20.6%, China HGS Real Estate (HGSH), down 15.9%, Gol Intelligent Airlines (GOL), down 12.7%, and Cambium Learning Group (ABCD), down 11.7%, were all laggards within the services sector with Limited Brands (LTD) being today's services sector laggard.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the services sector could consider iShares Dow Jones US Cons Services (IYC) while those bearish on the services sector could consider ProShares Ultra Short Consumer Sers (SCC).

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