Whirlpool Corporation (WHR): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Winner

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Whirlpool Corporation (WHR) pushed the Consumer Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, Whirlpool Corporation rose $2.05 (2.9%) to $73.82 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.4 million shares of Whirlpool Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $71.75-$74.97 after having opened the day at $71.77 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $71.77. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that increased today were: Global-Tech Advanced Innovations (GAI), up 12.6%, Fabrinet (FN), up 6.3%, Escalade (ESCA), up 5.4%, and Panasonic Corporation (PC), up 5.1%.

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Whirlpool Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of home appliances worldwide. Its principal products include laundry appliances, refrigerators and freezers, cooking appliances, dishwashers, mixers, and other portable household appliances. Whirlpool Corporation has a market cap of $5.56 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.5, equal to the average consumer durables industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 51.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Whirlpool Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Whirlpool Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations, notable return on equity and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.

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