Pall Corporation (PLL): Today's Featured Industrial Winner

Pall Corporation (PLL) pushed the Industrial industry higher today making it today's featured industrial winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Pall Corporation rose 54 cents (1%) to $54.79 on light volume. Throughout the day, 461,252 shares of Pall Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of one million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $54.06-$54.91 after having opened the day at $54.25 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.25. Other companies within the Industrial industry that increased today were: UQM Technologies (UQM), up 10%, CECO Environmental (CECE), up 8.4%, Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), up 7.5%, and IntriCon Corporation (IIN), up 7.5%.

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Pall Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets filtration, purification, and separation products and integrated systems solutions worldwide. Pall Corporation has a market cap of $6.42 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.6, below the average industrial industry P/E ratio of 19.7 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 3.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Pall Corporation a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Pall Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value.

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On the negative front, Ecotality (ECTY), down 21.9%, Cleantech Solutions International (CLNT), down 14.8%, NF Energy Saving (NFEC), down 11%, and Plug Power (PLUG), down 9.3%, were all laggards within the industrial industry with Deere (DE) being today's industrial industry laggard.

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