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Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK): Today's Featured Industrial Laggard

By TheStreet Wire 08/14/12 - 05:01 PM EDT

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Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) pushed the Industrial industry lower today making it today's featured Industrial laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.5%. By the end of trading, Stanley Black & Decker fell $1.15 (-1.7%) to $66.77 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1.1 million shares of Stanley Black & Decker exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $66.59-$68.26 after having opened the day at $68.18 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67.92. Other companies within the Industrial industry that declined today were: Tecumseh Products Company (TECUB), down 9.5%, A123 Systems (AONE), down 9.1%, Broadwind Energy (BWEN), down 8.8%, and Tecumseh Products Company (TECUA), down 8.1%.

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. provides power and hand tools, mechanical access solutions, and electronic security and monitoring systems primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Canada. Stanley Black & Decker has a market cap of $11.51 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.8, below the average industrial industry P/E ratio of 19.4 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 1.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Stanley Black & Decker a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Stanley Black & Decker as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

You can view the full Stanley Black & Decker Ratings Report.

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